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Recent Examples of devilry As shown in his previous films, Eggers’ sensibility has roots not in contemporary horror but in stories from centuries past that become vivid and febrile, alive with an insidious devilry that inches under your skin. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024 That’s enough devilry to explain at least much of Haiti’s challenges without resorting to tales of satanic influence. Matthew Brown, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024 Shyamalan, to be fair, has lost none of his compositional devilry; notice his bisecting of the screen with clean vertical lines—the trunk of a tree, or the edge of a shower curtain, behind which somebody may or may not lurk. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023 Who are the sword and sorcery protagonists that scratch your itch for devilry and adventure? Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2021 Suddenly, modernists were jockeying to impose some glass-and-steel devilry atop the old dame. Shawn McCreesh, Curbed, 17 Aug. 2021 Before long, the angry and injured young wife is the one on trial for witchcraft — fighting for her life as the apparent evidence of devilry accrues. BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2021 Aboard the ship, mysterious devilry begins to take place and a demon is suspected to be behind it. Kami Phillips, CNN Underscored, 8 Oct. 2020 The mildly disastrous consequences of Eddie’s devilry predictably set up the big moment at the end of the show in which Ward or June Cleaver would distill an important Life Lesson from the experience. Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 19 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devilry
Noun
  • He was originally suspected of two counts of arson, four counts of possession of a device, four counts of manufacturing a device and one count of mischief, according to Oregon records.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025
  • He was charged with criminal mischief and harassment, both misdemeanors that do not qualify for immediate jail time.
    Michael Wilson, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Franklin’s immediate ancestors grew up in a world where the fear of witchcraft led to tragic consequences.
    Michael Sheldrick, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The leadership of folks like Book and the Trans Folk Witch is especially significant considering the long history of exclusion within witchcraft.
    Emma Cieslik, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Unknown Armies This idiosyncratic modern magic game from Atlas Games plays like a gritty reboot of other games about sorcery.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The fact that Desmond injures himself badly in pulling off this sorcery endears him to Corrino all the more, which of course puts Valya in a deeper fix.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Quantum magic The process begins by using regular computers to simplify a problem to be solved using quantum hardware.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Maybe Beane could work some contract magic for a big-ticket free agent, fans hoped.
    Tim Graham, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities living at the margins of society.
    Jé Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The thought of our freedom to get outside and mingle being suppressed has a foreshadowing of doom that has smothered the enchantment of snow days.
    Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025

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“Devilry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devilry. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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