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Example sentences for "devilishly"

Lexicographically close words:
devient; devil; deviled; devilfish; devilish; devill; devilled; devilling; devills; devilment
  1. We sat under the boxes, and saw the fine ladies; among others, my Lady Kerneguy, who is most devilishly painted.

  2. On the contrary, I consider her a clever, a devilishly clever woman.

  3. I say, this is serious, devilishly serious," said De Gollyer, now thoroughly amazed.

  4. Between you and me and the lamppost, Doc is devilishly hard up.

  5. I expressed my gratitude for his kindness, which I was sure he would show, in providing fifty-five army rations for fifty- five doctors and nurses devilishly hungry and utterly destitute.

  6. Many wheels were turning in that great room and men were strapped to them, as though in some torture chamber, devilishly contrived.

  7. With a pang at the heart she could be most merry--tinkling out her laughing little lines just as martyrs could breathe a calm because, rather than spite of, they were devilishly racked.

  8. You see I wanted a chap to do something for me, and I didn't want to go to one of those rotten detective agencies--their charges are so devilishly high.

  9. You may be sure that this freak of his has some devilishly subtle cause--don't let him worry your good parishioners.

  10. She was devilishly struck with me the first time we rehearsed together.

  11. Let me tell you, monsieur le marquis, my men and I have a devilishly importunate creditor who must be satisfied--he's here!

  12. Give me such saints, and I'll be devilishly devout," added the count, in a whisper.

  13. This is devilishly like the road to Paradise," remarked Beau-Pied.

  14. This loving pressure is a magnetic effect of the fire which consumes my heart, and which snaps devilishly so near to you!

  15. And I find it all devilishly annoying and inconvenient.

  16. The road's devilishly steep and icy, and the corners are bad.

  17. You should only see and consider how it is with the seat of the soul in a nervous weakling, that it is devilishly hard, not stuffed out with so much as three horse-hairs, and cuts like the seat of a sleigh.

  18. The Professor of Morals quickly, with an uninked finger, wrote on the wall the outlines of the following words which he read off as fast as he traced them: "It was indeed disgusting, devilishly disgusting.

  19. If it's this little rapper, she's devilishly strong.

  20. For in the beginning of these things it's devilishly tiresome to carry three letters back and forth day in day out.

  21. By the honour of my ancestry," said the Honourable Lillyman Lionise, "but I am devilishly cut already.

  22. I have been half afraid the girl, who is devilishly handsome, might run away, and then my uncle would have followed her; but an illness which seized her suddenly has kept her in bed.

  23. Well, it must be devilishly light," answered Max, "for look there!

  24. But we sit in the warm cabaret, devilishly proud of ourselves.

  25. A devilishly involved argument, that, when the taxicab owners plume themselves upon being the last word in the matter of deplorable efficiency, the ultimate gasp in the business of convenience!

  26. He had now begun to play devilishly upon a pathetic stop, and sought every occasion to descant upon the social ruin that was overtaking Julian, and his deep concern in the matter.

  27. And that cross looked so devilishly ironical up there, as if it were silently laughing at the tumult in the rain.

  28. You're so devilishly unsympathetic," he complained sulkily.

  29. She was devilishly handsome--and a dashed bad lot.

  30. She's making it devilishly uncomfortable for me," he went on nervously.

  31. By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex.

  32. Just as in this case, he thinks of so many devilishly ingenious, out-of-the-way sort of things!

  33. Of course, I knew that the devilishly adroit, tactful way I was breaking it to him wouldn't disturb the peace of a baby.

  34. She was watching me curiously, smilingly, as she sat there, her devilishly pretty mouth puckered into a cherry as she softly whistled and drummed her shining nails upon the chair arm.

  35. I said impatiently, for he has so many devilishly clever inspirations, you know; and, dash it, I like to encourage him.

  36. Her face softened kindly and I took courage, for my devilishly alert mind just then hit upon another explanation.

  37. I remembered hearing Pugsley say--and he has had no end of experience with them--that when women are put out they expect you to find out what it is, no matter how devilishly improbable or unreasonable it may be.

  38. You see I'm not dead," remarked Lawrence, "only devilishly unlucky.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "devilishly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    atrociously; cruelly; ferociously