Devilish

Definition: Devilish

Devilish

Adjective

1. Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil; "devilish schemes"; "the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen"; "the diabolical expression on his face"; "a mephistophelian glint in his eye".

2. Playful in an appealingly bold way; "a roguish grin".

Adverb

1. In a playfully devilish manner; "the socialists are further handicapped if they believe that capitalists are not only wicked but also devilishly clever".

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Date "devilish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Slang in 1811

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Synonyms: Devilish

Malevolence

Fiendish, fiendlike; demoniacal; diabolic, diabolical; devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic; Tartaran.

Satan

Adjective: satanic, diabolic, devilish; infernal, hellborn.

Vice

Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish.

Crosswords: Devilish

Laughter is a devilish whim which deforms, uh, the lineaments of the face and makes men look like monkeys (Name der Rose, Der; writing credit: Andrew Birkin; Gérard Brach)

With a look in her eye so devilish (Thong Song; performing artist: SISQO)

The Devilish Device (1967)

Gay and Devilish (1922)

Droppington's Devilish Deed (1915)

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Books

• A Devilish Dilemma (Zebra Regency Romance) (reference)

• Devilish (reference)

• Devilish Doings: 20 Fiendish Tales (reference)

• Halloween: A Grown-Up's Guide to Creative Costumes, Devilish Decor & Fabulous Festivities (reference)

• Hellish Relish: Sizzling Salsas and Devilish Dips from the Kitchens of New Mexico (reference)

  (more book examples)

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But dead they are, and, devilish slave, by thee

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Expression using "devilish": devilish trick. Additional references.

Beginning with "devilish": devilish-looking, devilish-sounding.

Albanian

djallëzor (demoniacal, demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, satanic), shumë (amount, awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, ever so, far, far and away, good few, greatly, heap, heartily, highly, jolly, largely, like mad, lot, lots of, lump, many, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passing, passingly, Peck, poly-, precious, price, proceeds, quantum, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely), i dreqit (cotton-picking, damned, so and so). (various references)

Arabic 

‏شيطاني (demoniacal, demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, impish, infernal, playful, satanic, serpentine, swinging, unholy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страхотен (awesome, direful, fearsome, formidable, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, morbid, tremendous, unearthly), необикновен (different, distinct, exceptional, extraordinary, extreme, freak, freakish, novel, out, out of the ordinary, out of the way, phenomenal, portentous, quaint, remarkable, singular, special, unaccustomed, unaverage, uncommon, unconventional, unheard of, unusual, weird), подъл (base, blackguardly, caitiff, creeping, dastardly, diabolic, diabolical, dirt, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, jesuitic, jesuitical, low, low down, low-minded, mean, mean-spirited, miscreant, recreant, reptile, scurvy, shabby, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, snide, vile, villainous), дяволски (cursedly, demonic, deuced, deucedly, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, plaguy, tarnal). (various references)

Chinese 

恶�"般 (Demonic, Diabolic, Diabolical). (various references)

Czech

po èertech, ïábelský (demoniacal, diabolic, fiendish, infernal, satanic). (various references)

Dutch

duivels (demonic, diabolical, infernal), duivelachtig (diabolical), drommels (diabolical). (various references)

Esperanto

diabla (diabolical). (various references)

Farsi 

اهریمنی (Diabolic), شیطان صفت (Impish, Infernal), بسیاربد (Desperate, Detestable, Terrible). (various references)

Finnish

pirullinen (diabolical). (various references)

French

diabolique (demoniac). (various references)

Frisian

duvelsk (diabolical). (various references)

German

teuflisch (devilishly, diabolic, diabolical, evil, fiendish, hellish, infernal). (various references)

Greek 

σατανικόσ (diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, satanic, sulphurous), σατανικός (evil, wicked), μόρτικοσ, διαβολικόσ (diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, impish). (various references)

Hebrew 

ש�"י (demonic, ghoulish), שט� י (diabolic, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic). (various references)

Hungarian

sátáni (diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, satanic), pokolian (deucedly, fiendishly), ördögien (fiendishly), ördögi (daemonic, demoniacal, demonic, devil, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, mephistophelean, mephistophelian, satanic). (various references)

Indonesian

jahat (demonic, maleficent, mean, sinister, unrighteous, villainous, wicked). (various references)

Italian

diabolico (diabolic, diabolical). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

デポジット制度 (demagogue, demand, demand bus, demerit, demi-, Deming, demi-tasse, demo, democracy, democrat, democratic, demodulator, demographic, demonstration, demonstration tape, Depo-provera, deposit system, rumor)). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

デモーニッシュ . (various references)

Manx

jouyllagh (demoniac, diabolical, satanic), imshee (damnable; elf, damned, diabolical, imp). (various references)

Papiamen

diabóliko (diabolical). (various references)

Pig Latin

evilishday.(various references)

Portuguese

diabólico (demoniacal, demonic, deuced, diabolic, diabolical, fiend, mephistofelian, satanic). (various references)

Romanian

drãcesc (diabolic, diabolical, infernal, satanic), diavolesc (diabolic, diabolical, fiendish), diabolic (demoniac, demonic, diabolic, diabolical, diabolically, fiendish, hellish, infernal), necurat (accursed, cursed, dark, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, dubious, funny, shady, suspicious, unclean), infernal (diabolic, diabolical, hellish, infernal), blestemat (accursed, confounded, cursed, damnable, damned, darn, diabolic, diabolical, evil-minded, rascally, shabby, terrible, villainous, wicked), afurisit (accursed, bally, blessed, bloody, confounded, cursed, cussed, damned, darn, deuced, rogue, scamp, scoundrel), îndrãcit (furious, furiously, wild). (various references)

Russian 

дьявольский (blinking, demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, ghoulish, hellish, infernal). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vraški (deuced, impish), paklen (hellish, infernal, tartarean), đavolski (deuced, devil, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, impish, ruddy). (various references)

Spanish

diabólico (diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish). (various references)

Swedish

djävulsk (daemonic, demoniacal, demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, satanical), satanisk (satanic, satanical), jäkligt, jäkla (bally, blasted, blooming, cursed, cussed, damn, deuced, dratted, lousy, ruddy), förbaskad (ballup, blessed, blinking, confounded, damn, damnable, damned, darned, deuced, dratted, flaming, perishing, plaguey, plaguy). (various references)

Thai

โห�"เหี้ยม. (various references)

Turkish

müthiş (almighty, appalling, awful, bang up, beastly, colossal, deadly, devastating, dire, direful, fabulous, fearful, filthy, formidable, frightful, gee-whiz, helluva, prodigious, ripping, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, stunning, stupendous, superb, swell, tearing, terrible, terrific, thundering, unco, wild), kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrible, horrid, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, spoilt, sticky, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched), şeytani (demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, satanic, unhallowed), şeytanca (cloven-hoofed, demoniac, demoniacal, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, malicious, mephistophelean, mephistophelian, satanic, slily), şeytan gibi (arch, diabolic, diabolical, impish, slick, very clever), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), çok fazla (damn, excessively, exorbitant, far too much, immoderate, like blazes, mightily, oodles of, over, overmuch, plethoric, superabundant, too many, too much). (various references)

Ukrainian

страшенно (almighty, aloud, as anything, awfully, bloody, deadly, disgustingly, fearfully, frightfully, horribly, precious, terrible), чортячий, жахливо (almighty, appallingly, awfully, beastly, bitter, dogged, dreadfully, fearfully, ferociously, frightfully, grievously, horribly, lamentably, sadly, woefully), жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, desperate, deuced, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tragic, tremendous, ungodly, wretched), бісівський (unholy), диявольский (diabolic, diabolical). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quỷ quái; ác hiểm, ma t� , hiểm độc (evil-minded, malicious), gian t� , độc ác (bestial, cruel, cruelly, godless, malign, sinister, venomous). (various references)

Welsh

dieflig (diabolical, fiendish), cythreulig (fiendish). (various references)

diabolikos. (various references)

diabolici. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "devilish": devilishly, devilishness, devilishnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Devilish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Devilbiss, devilins, dorigish, eeikish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: devils, elvish, shield.

-3 letters: deils, delis, devil, dives, evils, heils, hides, hived, hives, idles, isled, ivied, ivies, lived, lives, livid, shied, shiel, shive, sidle, slide, veils, velds, vised.

-4 letters: deil, deli, dels, devs, diel, dies, dish, dive, edhs, elds, elhi, evil, heil, held, hide, hied, hies, hili, hive, ides, idle, isle, leis, lids.

+1 letter: devilfish.

+2 letters: devilishly.

+3 letters: devilfishes, disheveling, livelihoods, videophiles.

+4 letters: devilishness, dishevelling.