devilish

Resembling a devil.

Let vs put on our meet incountering mindes, / And in deteſting ſuch a diueliſh Thiefe, / In loue of honor and defence of right / Be arm’d againſt the hate of ſuch a foe, / Whether from earth, or hell, or heauen he grow.

[C]urrently incarcerated Stinc Team members Ketchy the Great, SaySoTheMac, and Bambino; the devilish and gravelly Almighty Suspect; red-clad Inglewooder and headband connoisseur FreeAckrite; baby-faced Martin Luther King Park loiterer Johnny Rose; […]

Evil, wicked.

For I abhore to smatter / Of one so deuyllysshe a matter.

[S]ome turne agayne by grace frõ their deadly hereſies into yͤ life of faith, ⁊ ſome be ſo ſore nowſeled in the falſe hereſies, ⁊ in their obſtinate frowardneſſe take ſuch a deueliſhe delight, yͭ finally thei die therin as did Baifield, Bainã, ⁊ Tewkeſbury.

Roguish or mischievous.

a devilish grin

[S]he gave me that lovely devilish smile that said: I like liberty, and not necessarily accountability.

Excessive, extreme.

A devilish effort yielded a devilish success.

I had a devilish time moving the wardrobe downstairs.

Devilishly; very; exceedingly.

It was devilish hot outside today.