devilish — İngilizce Sözlük

Sıfat

1. Resembling a devil.

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   demoniacdemonicdiabolicdiabolicalhellishinfernalfiendishsatanicsatanicalunhallowed

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   Let vs put on our meet incountering mindes, / And in deteſting ſuch a diueliſh Thiefe, / In loue of honor and defence of right / Be arm’d againſt the hate of ſuch a foe, / Whether from earth, or hell, or heauen he grow.

   [C]urrently incarcerated Stinc Team members Ketchy the Great, SaySoTheMac, and Bambino; the devilish and gravelly Almighty Suspect; red-clad Inglewooder and headband connoisseur FreeAckrite; baby-faced Martin Luther King Park loiterer Johnny Rose; […]

2. Evil, wicked.

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   atrociousdeucedmaliciousmischievousnefariousogreishreprobate

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   For I abhore to smatter / Of one so deuyllysshe a matter.

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   [S]ome turne agayne by grace frõ their deadly hereſies into yͤ life of faith, ⁊ ſome be ſo ſore nowſeled in the falſe hereſies, ⁊ in their obſtinate frowardneſſe take ſuch a deueliſhe delight, yͭ finally thei die therin as did Baifield, Bainã, ⁊ Tewkeſbury.

   […] devilish cruelty - for devilish cruelty it was, as three or four drivers armed with whips, lingered up and down the slowly-staggering file of Indians, and avenged every moment's lagging, even every stumble, by a blow of the cruel [whips].

   [T]he devilish destructiveness of modern conventional weapons and the need for future Saddam-busters to control their spread. (Think of the damage that a Saddam with longer-range missiles, cleverer warheads and better defences [could do][…].)

3. Roguish or mischievous.

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   cheekyimpishnaughty

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   a devilish grin

   [S]he gave me that lovely devilish smile that said: I like liberty, and not necessarily accountability.

4. Excessive, extreme.

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   • gayriresmî

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   lavishwanton

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   A devilish effort yielded a devilish success.

   I had a devilish time moving the wardrobe downstairs.

Zarf

1. Devilishly; very; exceedingly.

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   • eskimiş
   • gayriresmî

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   It was devilish hot outside today.

   Only I wish it had gone the other way for it's devilish awkward for me as it happens.

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   She was bossy and proud, a dreadful sag of skin and bones, and she was a devilish hard worker.

Sıfat

1. showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil

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   diabolicdiabolicalmephistophelianmephistophelean

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   devilish schemes

   the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen

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   the diabolical expression on his face

   a mephistophelian glint in his eye

2. playful in an appealingly bold way

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   rascallyroguish

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   a roguish grin

Zarf

1. in a playfully devilish manner

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   devilishly

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   the socialists are further handicapped if they believe that capitalists are not only wicked but also devilishly clever