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Devilishly   /dˈɛvəlɪʃli/  /dˈɛvlɪʃli/   Listen
Devilishly

adverb
1.
As a devil; in an evil manner.  Synonyms: diabolically, fiendishly.
2.
In a playfully devilish manner.  Synonym: devilish.
3.
(used as intensives) extremely.  Synonyms: deadly, deucedly, insanely, madly.  "Deadly dull" , "Deadly earnest" , "Deucedly clever" , "Insanely jealous"






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"Devilishly" Quotes from Famous Books



... were twenty yards further off he, running two feet to the cowpony's one, would brush through safely, but as it was no one could tell. He knew the reach of a lariat as well as a man; had not Cordova tormented him devilishly with one time and again? Estimating the speed of his approaching enemy and the reach of the rope he felt that he could still gain ...
— Alcatraz • Max Brand

... swayed by rage, merely; there would have been something petty in ordinary human resentment at that moment. There was another quality that was devilishly and subtly complex in the sudden mania which obsessed him. He had seen woodsmen leaping and shouting in the ecstasy of drunkenness; liquor seemed to affect the men of the woods in that way—to accentuate their sense of wild liberty. Latisan had been obliged ...
— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day

... damn! I've breakfasted on a pill and a glass of vichy for ten years," protested Draymore, "and the others either have swallowed their cocktails, or won't do it until luncheon. I say, Selwyn, you must think this a devilishly ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers

... gave a sudden hard shudder. "He is much worse than callous. He is hideously, almost devilishly cruel. But—but—he isn't only that. Blake, do you think he is quite human? He is so horribly, so ...
— The Way of an Eagle • Ethel M. Dell

... she said, "and I was never in my life so mad and so miserable. I can't understand why everything and everybody should behave so—devilishly. You and every one else, I mean. I just simply can't bear to have Nancy suffer so. My head aches and my heart aches and my soul aches." ...
— Outside Inn • Ethel M. Kelley



Words linked to "Devilishly" :   intensive, intensifier



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