12 adjectives to describe deviltry

The lofer prefers young meat and as a rule will cut down a yearling colt, or dine on warm veal, eschewing cold flesh and feeding only once from every killthe lobo being the Lucullus of beasts of preybut this prowler had either found scanty fare in a long journey across the mountains or else he wished to kill now for pure deviltry and not from hunger.

Then they shouted and screamed after her, almost maddened by this final, convincing proof of the consummate deviltry against which they were destined to struggle.

There's doubtless some deviltry in me, as Sir Lupus says.

The doctor's eye passed around a semicircle of some eight men, the most of whom were quite young, but one or two of whom were gray, sitting with their arms thrown out upon the wash-board, in the dark négligé of amateur fishermen and with that exultant look of expectant deviltry in their handsome faces which characterizes the Creole with his collar off.

"'Tis some infernal deviltry of St. Aulaire's, I'll be bound," said Mr. Morris.

They had resented it with ingenious deviltry.

That the behaviour of the slaveholders resulted from the circumstances in which they were placed and not from any innate deviltry is a fact now conceded by all impartial men.

The coquettish Mrs. Van Leer is a prominent personage of the story; and her shallow malice and pretty deviltries are most effectively represented.

I am sure my grandfather must have been up to some rather striking deviltry, and for all I know he might have been hanged.

Their communications had sometimes a ridiculous aimlessness, and occasionally a subtle deviltry coated about with religion, like a pill with sugar, but often a significant and fearful accuracy.

" I looked around at my barbarian kin, who had produced hunters' knives from recesses in their clothing, and now gathered impatiently around Dorothy, who appeared to be the leader in their collective deviltries.

What was more natural or fitting than that her guardianwhen he was about to depart from this sad world where human flesh is not able to endure an unlimited amount of dissipationshould give the girl as a lively souvenir to his bosom friend and companion of his unmentionable deviltries?

12 adjectives to describe  deviltry