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单词 devilish
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devilishdev‧il‧ish /ˈdevəlɪʃ/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • devilish torture techniques
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A sound enough plan in theory, but in practice it turned out to be a devilish job.
  • Charlton Heston plays Perry, complete with devilish beard, and he does everything but cackle with delight over his evilness.
  • Costner, with his easy grin, incipient beer belly, thinning hair and bright devilish eyes, plays broken-down convincingly.
  • That lack of balance too is devilish.
  • The girl was alone and devilish thoughts were playing on his mind.
  • We were cast into impenetrable blackness, with the rain still cascading down and that devilish thing on the loose!
1 literary very bad, difficult, or unpleasant:  devilish schemes to cheat people2seeming likely to cause trouble, but in a way that is amusing or attractive:  Dalton looked at her with a devilish grin.
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