The word "devilish" is used in written English and is considered correct
You can use it to describe something that is wicked, mischievous, or playful. For example: "She had a devilish grin as she plotted her next prank."
Obraniak, he of the educated left foot, curls a devilish ball into the six-yard box.
He glitters as the wicked Cesare Borgia, giving him a quick wit and devilish panache, which leaves the movie's supposed hero, Tyrone Power, struggling to appear anywhere near as captivating as its villain.
The category-five storm - the ninth most intense ever recorded - together with its devilish cohort of 15 twisters, caused $80m of damage but, miraculously, killed only 38 people.
And this is manna from heaven for somebody like me, not for any devilish reasons, but because I have been saying for a while that we need to look at things completely differently.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 9.51pm AEST12:51 65 min: Hayne claims a devilish Thurston bomb, that spirals like a helix, and NSW are in all sorts trying to get out of their half.
He is talking now only because he has a new film to promote, one he shot in London before the Games and edited afterwards: Trance, a stylish, high-concept thriller that sees the director returning to the devilish cleverness and sympathetic crooks of his debut, Shallow Grave.
Too much, the EU thinks, and the detail here is devilish.
TO THE anti-globalisers, the corporation is a devilish instrument of environmental destruction, class oppression and imperial conquest.
A group calling itself the Society for the Consecration of Russia denounced the cardinal for "doing exactly what the devil wants" by appeasing the communists.The supreme, or most devilish, moment of Cardinal Casaroli's career came in 1988.
But there was a catch: what operations?By offering to accept the current inspections regime before a tougher one could be agreed upon, Saddam Hussein then managed to split the UN Security Council and plunge it into discussion about the devilish details of the inspectors' remit.
The makers of the bombs that exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 fretted a lot about the ultimate consequences for mankind of their devilish ingenuity.
