"deviltry" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Variant spelling of devilry, influenced by gallantry.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deviltries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "deviltry (countable and uncountable, plural deviltries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Conservation of Races”, in Nahum Dimitri Chandler, editor, The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays, New York: Fordham University Press, published 2015, page 57",
          "text": "They stand back to make room for every rascal and demagogue who chooses to cloak his selfish deviltry under the veil of race pride.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, Alan W. Watts, chapter VII, in Myth and Ritual in Christianity, New York: Grove Press, published 1960, page 223",
          "text": "This is the law of \"enantiodromia\" whereby every extreme turns into its opposite, whereby Satanism is actually created by Puritanism and deviltry by sanctity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Devilry."
      ],
      "id": "en-deviltry-en-noun-bsfSLKWh",
      "links": [
        [
          "Devilry",
          "devilry"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "devilry",
          "word": "Teufelskunst"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "devilry",
          "word": "Teufelei"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "devilry",
          "word": "Unfug"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɛv.əl.tɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "dĕv'əl-trē"
    }
  ],
  "word": "deviltry"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Variant spelling of devilry, influenced by gallantry.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deviltries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "deviltry (countable and uncountable, plural deviltries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Conservation of Races”, in Nahum Dimitri Chandler, editor, The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays, New York: Fordham University Press, published 2015, page 57",
          "text": "They stand back to make room for every rascal and demagogue who chooses to cloak his selfish deviltry under the veil of race pride.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, Alan W. Watts, chapter VII, in Myth and Ritual in Christianity, New York: Grove Press, published 1960, page 223",
          "text": "This is the law of \"enantiodromia\" whereby every extreme turns into its opposite, whereby Satanism is actually created by Puritanism and deviltry by sanctity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Devilry."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Devilry",
          "devilry"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɛv.əl.tɹi/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "dĕv'əl-trē"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "devilry",
      "word": "Teufelskunst"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "devilry",
      "word": "Teufelei"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "devilry",
      "word": "Unfug"
    }
  ],
  "word": "deviltry"
}