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Meanings of mephistophelian in English
Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.
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Usage of mephistophelian in English
1
The face was almost mephistophelian in effect.
2
And Mr. Whistler's Mephistophelian form disappeared into the black of the night.
3
Hare, with his queer, Mephistophelian countenance, was the wickeder of the two.
4
His smile held the polished brutality of the most Mephistophelian Mephistopheles.
5
The face was made Mephistophelian, and the front half of him wore scarlet.
6
His thin, pointed face was positively Mephistophelian in its expression of malicious irony.
7
But suddenly she knitted her brows in a Mephistophelian frown.
8
For not even here was my father's satire of the cheerless and Mephistophelian school.
9
Alfoxden was a slight, Mephistophelian man... with bushy, red eyebrows.
10
His eyebrows (black as ink) had an upward tilt, in true Mephistophelian style.
11
He avoided with difficulty a burst of Mephistophelian laughter.
12
His face was Mephistophelian, his voice edged with irony.
13
Lucifer's Mephistophelian aspect is increased not only by those feet, but by an arrow-pointed tail.
14
The Mephistophelian type of novel leaves one sad.
15
At the elfin black hair and Mephistophelian face of this horrible, wonderful image, I stared fascinatedly.
16
A frown, making three folds at the root of her nose, accentuated the Mephistophelian slant of her eyebrows.
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