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deviltry

UK/ˈdɛv.əl.tɹi/

deviltry noun: devilry.

Noun

deviltry (countable and uncountable, plural deviltries)

  1. Devilry.
    • The poor girl had a right to her chance, and he should not really alter anything by taking it away from her; for was she not the artist to the tips of her tresses (the ambassadress never in the world), and would she not take it out in something else if one were to make her deviate? So certain was...1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC
    • They stand back to make room for every rascal and demagogue who chooses to cloak his selfish deviltry under the veil of race pride.1897, W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Conservation of Races”, in Nahum Dimitri Chandler, editor, The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays, New York...

deviltry meaning in Tamil

deviltry in Tamil

பேயோட்டுதல்

Examples of deviltry in a sentence

  • So certain was that irrepressible deviltry to insist ever on its own.1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […]...
  • This is the law of "enantiodromia" whereby every extreme turns into its opposite, whereby Satanism is actually created by Puritanism and deviltry by sanctity.1954, Alan W. Watts, chapter VII, in Myth and Ritual in Christianity, New York: Grove Press, published 1960, page 223:

Forms of deviltry

pluraldeviltries

Origin of deviltry

Variant of devilry, influenced by gallantry.

Questions about deviltry

What does deviltry mean?
Deviltry means devilry.
What is deviltry in Tamil?
Deviltry in Tamil is பேயோட்டுதல். See Deviltry meaning in Tamil.
How do you use deviltry in a sentence?
So certain was that irrepressible deviltry to insist ever on its own.
What part of speech is deviltry?
Deviltry is a noun.
How do you pronounce deviltry?
Deviltry is pronounced /ˈdɛv.əl.tɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of deviltry?
The plural of deviltry is deviltries.

Words near deviltry in the dictionary

  1. devilstick
  2. devilsticks
  3. devilstrip
  4. devilstrips
  5. deviltries
  6. deviltry
  7. devilward
  8. devilweed aster
  9. devilwood
  10. devilwoods
  11. Devin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deviltry (page history and authors); deviltry (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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