What is "devilment"

Usage examples of "devilment".

He searched the deck for Brock but could not see him and wondered what devilment he was up to.

Is this more of their devilment, the Soviets the enemy of all the Russians?

Gornt smiled with the front of his face and Barre wondered what devilment Gornt was planning.

Once an official Soviet bank's here what other devilment could they get up to, eh?

Is this more of their devilment, the Soviets-the enemy of all the Russians?

He was grinning with sheer devilment as he asked Ashiant for an immediate interview.

Barbara kept her face very straight but Henry knew her to be possessed of a sense of devilment, very much in evidence under that air of innocent helpfulness.

Is it I who have been the subject of devilment, am I the one possessed?

So I went on with my devilment, changing verses, until one day I read my lines to him and saw him frown and shake his head as if to clear his mind, and then nod his approval slowly, but with a little doubt.

I didn't know what the hell he was up to, or who his mysterious victim might be - any devilment was nuts to Moran, and it didn't matter a dam.

Who knew what devilments Isketerol might be up to, might get up to in the future, if they gave him time?

I knew pretty thoroughly the paths of the winds of the world and had studied most of the devilments of nature, but like many a volcanologist I'd warmed my hands from afar without walking round an erupting rim.

Derek Umbolu rasped forth: "You'll nay torment my father with your devilments, nor throw shame on us with your secrecy.