deviltry

Noun

1. Devilry.
   • The poor girl had a right to her chance, and he should not really alter anything by taking it away from her; for was she not the artist to the tips of her tresses (the ambassadress never in the world), and would she not...
   • They stand back to make room for every rascal and demagogue who chooses to cloak his selfish deviltry under the veil of race pride. - 1897, W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Conservation of Races”, in Nahum Dimitri Chandler,...
   • This is the law of "enantiodromia" whereby every extreme turns into its opposite, whereby Satanism is actually created by Puritanism and deviltry by sanctity. - 1954, Alan W. Watts, chapter VII, in Myth and Ritual in...