devilishness

There's a devilishness out there when it comes to this African thing."

Fear was strong in their faces, and the devilishness which comes of fear.

And yet he's got that little devilishness too.

There was something absolutely new in trickery and devilishness in it.

He could read nothing in her remark, and put it down to devilishness that wanted to make more of a fool of him.

In a fit of devilishness, Mia pinched one very hard, but very quickly.

Who else, of all on board the Ariel, would have dared such devilishness with the lady-god's bed?

"Oh, yes, you cling to it as a mark of your devilishness," said the analyst sternly.

"And what does this devilishness amount to?

What barbaric devilishness went on in there?

Her eyes were a dancing, sunny brown-lending just a hint of devilishness to her look.

The general opinion among the Elders now was that all animals were made divinely immune to devilishness because they couldn't sin anyhow.

The same veiled devilishness that he wove into his stand-up routines was at the center of his acting.

Or is that devilishness?

Reason is devilishness within.

For the first time a flicker of devilishness showed in Zac's eyes, then disappeared as quickly as it had come.

Hatsumomo could be ingenious in her devilishness.

The humor and wit were in the words and the deadpan rat-a-tat-tat delivery suggesting unbounded devilishness.

He was the Devil incarnate, but he had no devilishness; he was all evil, no seduction.

"It's all Dunk's devilishness," Jack Bates declared.

The devilishness, the wickedness, and, above all, the pitch of glaring hatred with which the man eyed me and addressed me, were most unpleasant.

They say the tenacity, brutality and devilishness that characterize Mourning's play against everyone else are missing, or at least decreased, when he locks up with Ewing.

Ms. Kozena inhabited the cycle's character completely, giving her readings a childlike quality, beautifully calibrated to convey the range between innocence and devilishness.

This steel-and-lumber devilishness was conceived by Harry C. Baker and designed by Vernon Keenan.

Then Mr. Pike took a hand, seizing the hauling-part next to the pin and lifting his voice with a rare snap and devilishness: