A word used in exclamations of confusion.
English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)
1 What really plays the dickens with us is some thing in ourselves.
2 One day he finds he is in a dickens of a fix.
3 It is raining like the dickens in London, and miserable beyond description.
4 But it seemed that they were having a dickens of a time.
5 Burns your throat, too, and makes one as thirsty as the dickens .
6 How the dickens did that groceryman get hold of such a beauty?
7 What the dickens are you doing here? shouted a voice behind him.
8 How the dickens is old Hank going to feed them fifty thousand?
9 Then what the dickens right have you to talk at all, sir?
10 Why the dickens can't you leave me in peace till I'm through?
11 Well, why the dickens don't you write something that they will accept?
12 In this case, it exploded against us and raised the very old dickens .
13 Frankly and coldly I told him to go to the dickens .
14 Just what the dickens is going on with our Olympic team?
15 What the dickens could I do if he turned nasty along such lines.
16 Yhey say he's in the dickens of a mess for money.
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