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• n  wicked and cruel behavior
• n  reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others

• If Bull Moore was above any kind of mix-up that concerned a girl, his dare-deviltry sometimes brought him to the edge of other kinds of trouble.
• Some East Germans fear that the "pocketbook blockade" of West Berlin (PTI, April 11) is only the prelude to "some new deviltry.
• Last week in Washington, Irving Brown was filling his little black bag with plans for a lot more anti-Communist deviltry.

• devilry
• mischief
• mischief-making
• mischievousness
• devilment
• rascality
• roguery
• roguishness
• shenanigan