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Meaning of "deviltry" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEVILTRY

deviltry  [ˈdɛvɪltrɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEVILTRY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Deviltry is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEVILTRY


ancestry
ˈænsɛstrɪ
cemetery
ˈsɛmɪtrɪ
chemistry
ˈkɛmɪstrɪ
choltry
ˈtʃəʊltrɪ
country
ˈkʌntrɪ
daredeviltry
ˈdɛəˌdɛv əltrɪ
entry
ˈɛntrɪ
geometry
dʒɪˈɒmɪtrɪ
industry
ˈɪndəstrɪ
infantry
ˈɪnfəntrɪ
ministry
ˈmɪnɪstrɪ
paltry
ˈpɔːltrɪ
pantry
ˈpæntrɪ
peltry
ˈpɛltrɪ
poetry
ˈpəʊɪtrɪ
poultry
ˈpəʊltrɪ
registry
ˈrɛdʒɪstrɪ
secretary
ˈsɛkrətrɪ
sultry
ˈsʌltrɪ
sweltry
ˈswɛltrɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEVILTRY

devil´s food cake
Devil´s Island
devildom
deviless
devilet
devilfish
devilish
devilishly
devilishness
devilism
devilkin
devilled
devilling
devilment
devilries
devilry
devils-on-horseback
devilship
deviltries
devilwood

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEVILTRY

artistry
biochemistry
carpentry
Coventry
cross-country
dentistry
free-range poultry
go to the country
home country
hospitality industry
pastry
psychiatry
retry
symmetry
tapestry
the Black Country
the country
the North Country
the West Country
try

Synonyms and antonyms of deviltry in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «deviltry» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEVILTRY

Find out the translation of deviltry to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of deviltry from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «deviltry» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

deviltry
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

diablura
570 millions of speakers

English

deviltry
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

deviltry
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأذى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

чертовщина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

deviltry
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

deviltry
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

diablerie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kejahatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Teufelei
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

魔術
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

deviltry
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Devils
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

deviltry
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மடத்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

देवघात
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

deviltry
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

diavoleria
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

deviltry
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

чортівня
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Cosmaruri
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

deviltry
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vulsheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

deviltry
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

djevelskap
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of deviltry

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEVILTRY»

The term «deviltry» is normally little used and occupies the 112.376 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of deviltry
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEVILTRY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «deviltry» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «deviltry» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about deviltry

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEVILTRY»

Discover the use of deviltry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to deviltry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Swords and Deviltry
Swords and Deviltry, the first book of Leiber's landmark series, introduces us to a strange world where our two strangers find the familiar in themselves and discover the icy power of female magic.
Fritz Leiber, 2014
2
Deviltry Afoot
Seeking justice for her daughters murder Tina must seek answers in the supernatural realm. Terror is spreading over Pendale. Love is pitted against a dreadful force.
Carol Pritt, 2013
3
Lean Times in Lankhmar
Their lives are chronicled in four books, of which this is the second.
Fritz Leiber, 1999
4
The Three of Swords: Swords and Deviltry, Swords Against ...
Fritz Leiber was best-known and -loved for his Fafhrd and Gray Mouser tales, a series that got its start in 1934 when he and his college chum Harry Fischer devised alter egos: Leiber was the tall, northern barbarian Fafhrd and Fischer the ...
Fritz Leiber, 1970
5
Visions of Kerouac: A Novel of the Beat Generation, the ...
This novel of the Beat Generation, the 1960s, psychedelic San Francisco, and more has been revised and includes a new Introduction by the author.
‎2007
6
American Christmases: Firsthand Accounts of Holiday ...
Masquerading and Deviltry According to this article from the Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch of December 25, 1864, celebrants far from the battlefields "carried on" in a strange manner gSS|ast evening was a carnival of tin trumpets, penny ...
Joanne Martell, 2005
7
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Though rude and rough, though life's forces ran over the edge of the bowl, foaming and sparkling in pure deviltry for deviltry's sake, yet place before them a poor man who needed their aid, a lame or sick man, a defenceless woman, a widow, ...
Ida M. Tarbell, 1928
8
Frenzied Finance: The Crime of Amalgamated
CHAPTER XXVI DEVILTRY AFOOT Thursday, May 4, 1899, dawned as fair a spring morning as ever set off sacrificial rite or triumphal jubilee — a day of buoyant, delicious airs which set the blood throbbing in the veins and ambition thrilling in ...
Thomas W. Lawson, 2009
9
The Scientifiction Novels of C.S. Lewis: Space and Time in ...
Lewis himself observed that this novel was a tall story about deviltry, making the same serious points that he made in The Abolition of Man, and that in the novel the outer rim of the deviltry needed to be shown touching some profession with ...
Jared Lobdell, 2004
10
Maverick Republican in the Old North State: A Political ...
Chapter VII "An Orgy of Deviltry the Like of Which Has Not Been Seen" Governor Russell and the Election of 1898 "WE HAVE FALLEN on evil days in North Carolina," announced the Democratic state committee in November, 1897.
Jeffrey J. Crow, Robert Franklin Durden, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEVILTRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term deviltry is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Show Up!: Five outrageous opportunities to shine - Alibi
He's a master bluesman whose commitment to deep river guitar deviltry earned him the kind of cred reserved for the likes of Robert Johnson ... «Weekly Alibi, Jul 15»
2
Penny Dreadful: Season Finale: And They Were Enemies Review
The duet of deviltry and divinity had all the menace needed. Evelyn Poole crumbled to the floor in fear, but also in full recognition that she was ... «Den of Geek!, Jul 15»
3
Baltimore: Cult of the Red King #3 Review: Mignola Reminds Us …
And the bad guys have been largely faceless, their deviltry mostly generic in nature. What I had forgotten, or at least failed to think too much ... «Bam! Smack! Pow!, Jul 15»
4
America's nervous breakdown: Deviltry gets a smack-down
"We're going insane, folks. We're literally being swept up by the insane and being told we have to join them in their insanity . . When there are ... «RenewAmerica, Jun 15»
5
Mr. Binay should drop 'Jojobama' and campaign like Hillary Clinton
For one, this: that even a campaign dragged down by a heavy moral baggage and identified with all sorts of deviltry can survive. The pundits ... «The Manila Times, Jun 15»
6
Hellraising high jinks
... bloodfests and, more recently, extravagant revivals of Cockettes musicals, Thrillpeddlers gives Club Inferno a happy new home for its deviltry. «Bay Area Reporter, Jun 15»
7
Barbed-wire troubles during the early 1880s
Well, sir, whenever the devilish rascals go beyant the Constitution with their deviltry, l am in favor of going beyant the Constitution to catch 'em!” «Wilson County News, Jun 15»
8
On this day in Okanagan history: Cheery news from France
... draught to counteract the pessimism to which some people give way under the influence of the prolonged struggle and the deviltry of German ... «The Daily Courier, Jun 15»
9
Bodo: Why French Open result was out of Djokovic's control
Hats off to the grit of Rafael Nadal and the deviltry of Andy Murray. But none of them has a solution for what Stan Wawrinka at his best can do. «ESPN.co.uk, Jun 15»
10
Grizzlies grub – A new sandwich steps up to the plate
And just like every year in recent history, that email signals me that it's time to gird my palate and head forth to see what sort of culinary deviltry ... «Gaston Gazette, May 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Deviltry [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/deviltry>. Apr 2024 ».
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