What's the difference between deuced and devilish?

Deuced


Definition:

  • (a.) Devilish; excessive; extreme.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Murray drags it back to deuce, a lob from him and a missed slice from Federer making it so.
  • (2) During deuce, we are treated to some absurdity from both players, but Kyrgios then misses a forehand to give Nadal another set point.
  • (3) He somehow scrambled to deuce and delighted in forcing Dimitrov to chase in vain from one side of the court to the other to go 6-5 up.
  • (4) In the first set Miss Round was at her best, in command of the match, and only two games went to deuce.
  • (5) A simple missed volley at deuce gives breakpoint and a gradually takes control of a long rally before forcing a Wawrinka error.
  • (6) Murray’s first double fault at deuce brought an angry response - and a pair of aces to hold for 2-1 - from one of the game’s most demanding perfectionists.
  • (7) Murray, who does not like wearing a cap, repeatedly caught the sun in his eyes on his ball toss to double-fault twice, aced and fought through three deuce points to hold in the eighth game.
  • (8) Djokovic, though, blew a cross-court forehand for deuce – but not the forehand he drilled for a winner and break.
  • (9) He misses three presentable forehands (see last tiebreak) as it goes to deuce and after more than 10 minutes Rafa breaks.
  • (10) 2.46pm BST First set: Djokovic*4-3 Nadal No sooner do I write that about Nadal's serve than Djokovic finds himself at 30-30 and then at deuce – the first time we've seen one of those.
  • (11) That takes it to 40-15, but a great crosscourt service return and an unforced error from Nadal later it's deuce, and Djokovic has a sniff, a chance.
  • (12) But we go to deuce and Dimitrov will be pleased to see how much he's making Murray scamper around the baseline.
  • (13) On deuce, a second serve from Murray is called out, only for the umpire to correct the call.
  • (14) A service down the line, into the deuce court, is too much for Djokovic, and another winner concludes the transaction.
  • (15) Giants up by a deuce, and here comes Jeff Jones, Tigers pitching coach to have a word with his man.
  • (16) Donovan in that role would probably step on Deuce's toes.
  • (17) A vicious forehand from centre to the deuce court saves one, and there follows the best point so far - a Nadal lob wins the advantage, as he can only flip it back - but he stays in the rally, and another winner saves another.
  • (18) He was artful and resolute, also, in getting to deuce on Murray’s serve in the fourth game but the Scot would not crack.
  • (19) She double-faulted to give Cornet two breakpoints only to recover before, at 1-1, deuce, the umpire called them off.
  • (20) Another ace at deuce gives Wawrinka game point, but Djokovic fights back with a brilliant double-hander down the line.

Devilish


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.
  • (a.) Extreme; excessive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He warned of the “devilish” intentions of the US, even as he reaffirmed his support for Iran’s negotiating team.
  • (2) She says she saw the girls' "devilish twitching" and "committing impudences".
  • (3) eneath the jokes, the headline fodder, the superstitions and devilish charm, there is another side to Cellino.
  • (4) Robbie Brady breezed past the right-back Emre Can to send a devilish cross into the six-yard box and Mignolet punched the ball out as far as Jake Livermore.
  • (5) Yet there the four sat piously deploring "complexity" in a tax system that keeps adding volumes to the code just to chase down their devilish loopholes.
  • (6) We are doing all we can to bring Peter Greste home.” The prosecution closed its case in Cairo on Thursday, accusing the three journalists of making a “devilish pact” with the Muslim Brotherhood, who were ousted from power by the Egyptian military in July 2013.
  • (7) Perhaps this devilish bait-and-switch enables us to understand better what political talk of “aspirations” for the masses really mean.
  • (8) Since then, in truth it has been a bit of a slog with consistency devilishly hard to come by.
  • (9) Their debut full-length, Hell on Heels , found them giving voice to third-generation bartenders, drug-addicted housewives and devilish gold-diggers.
  • (10) And you sense that if you put so much as a full stop in the wrong place, some devilish voice from hell will exclaim ' Muahaha....we got you ! '
  • (11) 3.08pm BST 8 min: This time City work the ball cleverly on the left, Kolarov playing a neat one-two with Toure and fizzing a devilish low ball into the six-yard box.
  • (12) Recorded at the new Paisley Park studio he had built in 1986 on the outskirts of Minneapolis, Sign was devilishly eclectic, travelling from the doom-saying title track - an unsettling mix of hypnotic electro rhythm, bluesy guitar and fragile, semi-rapped lyric - to the Philly rhapsody of 'Adore' via the frantic power pop of 'I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man'.
  • (13) But that was the least of the pain inflicted on Brunt by Zaha, whose speed and devilish dribbling tormented the left-back from start to finish.
  • (14) Devilishly cunning new legislation in 19 key US states, designed to place obstacles between voters and the ballot boxes most likely to affect those who vote Democrat, may eventually swing it for the Republicans.
  • (15) Stylish, devilishly expensive – the perfect bag in which to carry around statistics about third world debt.
  • (16) Two years later came The Destroying Angel – a much darker piece, based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe; a nightmarish series of encounters for a young seminarian with a devilish character and magic mushrooms.
  • (17) What if by some devilish miracle the great 1920s iconoclast H.L.
  • (18) Like every other globally traded commodity foodstuff, quinoa is devilishly complicated and prone to tragedy.
  • (19) Howard had to leave his line to block Dembélé early on, after Sylvain Distin's loose back pass and Rose's run and devilish cross nearly found Adebayor.
  • (20) What also gets overlooked sometimes is the devilish way they work to get the ball back when they lose it.

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