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Meanings of mephistophelian in English
Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.
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Examples for "devilish"
Examples for "devilish"
1
You are poor, devilish poor;-thatthe hole in your coat assures me.
2
Their devilish tears are contagious; and I can't cry; it chokes me.
3
His yellow teeth in their blue gums flashed in a devilish smile.
4
The overwhelming sea ran in dark watery mountains crested with devilish fire.
5
Chastity is just as unnatural and devilish as hunger; I hate both.
1
Unfortunately, this diabolical practice is by no means confined to local authorities.
2
The rumors of the diabolical plot reached the ears of Kit Carson.
3
A bird with a most diabolical shrieking note cursed in the shadows.
4
This is what sequestration has become: diabolical descriptions of soldiers mowing lawns.
5
The next has a more diabolical character than any of the preceding.
1
The gulf is the difference between the angelic and the diabolic temperament.
2
For hundreds of years this idea of diabolic possession was steadily developed.
3
When it was finished, he told himself, the portrait would be diabolic.
4
Understand, I do not say that it was not spiritual or diabolic.
5
Divine visions are effected by representations in heaven; diabolic by magic in hell.
1
That Mephistophelean spirit of detraction has wide scope in this day.
2
It's a Mephistophelean thing: I can show you power and money if you go with me.
3
He was thus the very man to pour a cool Mephistophelean spray upon Schiller's emotional fervors.
4
Mendoza, with a Mephistophelean smile, bows profoundly.
5
When he smiled he revealed a row of very large white teeth, and his smile was correctly Mephistophelean.
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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