"devilish of" can be a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe someone or something as mischievous, cunning, or wicked. It can also convey a sense of playfulness or excitement. Example: Sarah had always been known for her devilish sense of humor, but when she pranked her best friend with a fake spider, even she was shocked by how well it worked.
The heart of Owen's story is Haloid and Carlson's 12-year struggle to fit all xerography's complex movements and suboperations -- charging, exposure, development, transfer, fusing, cleaning and, most devilish of all, moving cut rather than continuous sheets of paper -- inside one office machine.
But every now and then one of them will stand back from this most devilish of Lamborghinis and stare, motionless, apart from a hand massaging their chin thoughtfully.
Conceived by James S. Sweitzer, the director of special projects at the Rose Center, the sky show is made to offer visitors the seamless illusion of traveling through space, blissfully unaware of the devilish process of representation.
George Smiley, off-screen mastermind of this devilish brew of bluff and counter-bluff, is waiting for him.
Part of the devilish cunning of Coe's delicious imbroglio derives from the simple historical fact that the Belgians, in the spirit of schadenfreude, have placed the Soviet and American pavilions adjacent to each other, not far from the Britannia.
Her dark, liquid outpouring of piety in "A Nun Takes the Veil" was countered by the devilish wit of "The Secrets of the Old".
Over the next couple of weeks the devilish details of the strings attached to the €45bn mechanism made available to the country will go from rumour to reality.
8 P.M. (13, 49) WOLVERINE: CHASING THE PHANTOM "Nature" journeys north in search of the bloodthirsty killer of legend and discovers a devilish member of the weasel family.
It is a far better picture than Gauguin's devilish presentation of himself as Jean Valjean, of "Les Misérables".
The devilish complexity of computers and -- worse -- networks of computers, has long been the bane of the engineers who try to keep corporate computer systems up and running.
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.
