(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.
Ogreish
Definition:
(a.) Resembling an ogre; having the character or appearance of an ogre; suitable for an ogre.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some light of sorts was shed one day when she and her brother found themselves listening on the radio to the ogreish president at the time, PW Botha, announcing the imposition of a nationwide state of emergency.
(2) Norman is shown on his sickbed, so who's the green-haired ogreish type seen from behind and walking tall with confidence?
(3) Pravda , the celebrated Fleet Street comedy Brenton co-wrote with David Hare in 1985, may have trained its sights on the very real threat of Rupert Murdoch – it depicts an ogreish press baron attempting to take over the British media – but it was the play's sheer energy that audiences adored.