Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.
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You are poor, devilish poor;-thatthe hole in your coat assures me.
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Their devilish tears are contagious; and I can't cry; it chokes me.
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His yellow teeth in their blue gums flashed in a devilish smile.
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The overwhelming sea ran in dark watery mountains crested with devilish fire.
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Chastity is just as unnatural and devilish as hunger; I hate both.
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Unfortunately, this diabolical practice is by no means confined to local authorities.
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The rumors of the diabolical plot reached the ears of Kit Carson.
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A bird with a most diabolical shrieking note cursed in the shadows.
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This is what sequestration has become: diabolical descriptions of soldiers mowing lawns.
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The next has a more diabolical character than any of the preceding.
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The gulf is the difference between the angelic and the diabolic temperament.
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For hundreds of years this idea of diabolic possession was steadily developed.
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When it was finished, he told himself, the portrait would be diabolic.
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Understand, I do not say that it was not spiritual or diabolic.
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Divine visions are effected by representations in heaven; diabolic by magic in hell.
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The face was almost mephistophelian in effect.
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And Mr. Whistler's Mephistophelian form disappeared into the black of the night.
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Hare, with his queer, Mephistophelian countenance, was the wickeder of the two.
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His smile held the polished brutality of the most Mephistophelian Mephistopheles.
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The face was made Mephistophelian, and the front half of him wore scarlet.
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That Mephistophelean spirit of detraction has wide scope in this day.
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It's a Mephistophelean thing: I can show you power and money if you go with me.
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He was thus the very man to pour a cool Mephistophelean spray upon Schiller's emotional fervors.
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Mendoza, with a Mephistophelean smile, bows profoundly.
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When he smiled he revealed a row of very large white teeth, and his smile was correctly Mephistophelean.
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He advanced smiling, and in the bright sunlight seemed even more Mephistophelean than he had seemed in Harley's office.
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Julian, in describing Marr to Valentine, had pronounced him Satanic, and this dead face was, in truth, somewhat Mephistophelean.
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Mephistophelean was more high sounding.
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The red-haired judge, with straw hat and Mephistophelean limp, was there, looking like an Offenbach villain out for a spree.
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For they range all the way from the most mordant to the most pathetic irony-fromMephistophelean laughter to warm, human tears:
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Standing in the doorway he bowed, and if his smile was Mephistophelean, there was much about Colonel Juan Menendez which commanded respect.
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A scarlet halo begins to glow; and into it the Devil rises, very Mephistophelean, and not at all unlike Mendoza, though not so interesting.
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"You don't hear the words," the doctor remarked, with a smile which, in the dark, looked Mephistophelean.