devilish

IPA: dˈɛvɫɪʃ

adjective

  • Resembling a devil.
  • Characteristic of a devil.
  • (informal) Extreme, excessive.

adverb

  • (informal, dated) Devilishly; very; exceedingly.
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Examples of "devilish" in Sentences

  • You may be in devilish fine form to-day, but your throat is rotten.
  • The one are fellows called devilish good -- the other, fellows called devilish gentleman like.
  • Sometimes an otherwise calm and serene person gathers a look that can best be described as devilish.
  • A divine love which had in it no necessity of hating evil would be profoundly immoral, and would be called devilish more fitly than divine.
  • This may be called a devilish zeal; for as there is the faith of devils, so there is the zeal of devils: "Therefore his rage is great, because he knows his time is short."

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