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devilishdev‧il‧ish /ˈdevəlɪʃ/ adjective - devilish torture techniques
- 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. |