mephistophelean
IPA: mˈɛfɪstˈɔfɪɫˈin
Root Word: Mephistophelean
adjective
- Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.
- Alternative letter-case form of Mephistophelean [Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.]
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Examples of "mephistophelean" in Sentences
- And they didn't even play their somber, mephistophelean reworking of
- So what mephistophelean miracle have you got in mind to achieve this, and what would I need to do?
- His mephistophelean eyebrows were raised interrogatively, and he was smiling so as to exhibit a row of uneven yellow teeth.
- The short story draws on some recent search politics, namely Google's mephistophelean work in China, and adds digerati culture Burning Man, San Francisco.
- Summerland by Michael Chabon, published in 2002, is a doorstop children's fantasy that combines baseball, dirigibles, interdimensional travel, changelings, and a mephistophelean trickster legend into a big stew (which could have been simmered down a bit more).
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