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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Devilish \Dev"il*ish\, adjective
1. Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme. ''Devilish wickedness.'' --Sir P. Sidney.
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. --James iii. 15.
2. Extreme; excessive. [Colloq.] --Dryden.
Syn: Diabolical; infernal; hellish; satanic; wicked; malicious; detestable; destructive. -- {Dev"il*ish*ly}, adverb -- {Dev"il*ish*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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" [syn: {diabolic}, {diabolical}, {mephistophelian}, {mephistophelean}]
2: playful in an appealingly bold way; "a roguish grin" [syn: {rascally}, {roguish}]
adverb: in a playfully devilish manner; "the socialists are further handicapped if they believe that capitalists are not only wicked but also devilishly clever" [syn: {devilishly}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "devilish": Acherontic, Draconian, Lethean, Mephistophelian, Plutonian, Plutonic, Stygian, Tartarean, accursed, animal, anthropophagous, arch, atrocious, bad, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, chthonian, chthonic, crazy, cruel, cruel-hearted, cursed, damnable, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, demonish, demonlike, devil-like, diabolic, diabolical, elfish, elvish, evil, execrable, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, flagitious, foolish, full of mischief, ghoulish, heinous, hellborn, hellish, high-spirited, impish, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iniquitous, knavish, madcap, maleficent, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischief-loving, mischievous, murderous, naughty, nefarious, ogreish, pandemoniac, pandemonic, playful, prankish, pranksome, pranky, puckish, purgatorial, roguish, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scampish, scapegrace, serpentine, sharkish, sinful, sinister, slavering, sportive, subhuman, sulfurous, trickish, tricksy, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, ungodly, unhallowed, unhuman, vicious, villainous, waggish, wicked, wolfish
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