Definition of "devilish" []

• Of, resembling, or characteristic of a devil, as: (adjective)
• Malicious; evil. (adjective)
• Mischievous, teasing, or annoying. (adjective)
• Excessive; extreme: devilish heat. (adjective)
• Extremely; very. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "You may be in devilish fine form to-day, but your throat is rotten."
• "Sometimes an otherwise calm and serene person gathers a look that can best be described as devilish."
• "A divine love which had in it no necessity of hating evil would be profoundly immoral, and would be called devilish more fitly than divine."