8 adjectives to describe devilries

"A playful devilry of spirit," "a ceaseless militancy"how stirring to the stagnant lives of prudent regularity!

On the whole he had never enjoyed himself so much in his life; he became proficient in all manner of minor devilries, and was ceasing to trouble himself about his bell or his ecclesiastical duties, when an untoward incident interrupted his felicity.

" "I trust that you have held yourself apart from all their popish devilry.

For what reason he had done so he could not guess; after his experience of yesterday it might have been from pure devilry, or again he might have feared that in desperation, Taynton would take that extreme step of prosecuting him for blackmail.

It goes out on half-holidays, prowling about, and is allowed to break bounds and generally steep itself to the eyebrows in reckless devilry.

After all, it is possible for a man without principle, without morality, to begin to make love to a woman in a mere spirit of adventure, in sheer devilry, and to be rather hard hit at the last.

A queer little dancing gleam leaped up in Piers' eyesthe gleam that had invariably heralded some piece of especial devilry in the days of his boyhood.

The tacit devilry fell away from his surroundings as his hunger grew less, and his companions became no more than a middle-aged negress in a turban, a black boy pitifully deformed, and a beautiful child.

8 adjectives to describe  devilries