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Sentence count:282+13Posted:2017-05-04Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: demonfiendmonsterogreAntonym: angelSimilar words: daredevildust devilvaudevilledevil's advocatespeak of the devilgive the devil his dueevildeviseMeaning: ['devl]  n. 1. (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell 2. one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief 3. a word used in exclamations of confusion 4. a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) 5. a cruel wicked and inhuman person. v. 1. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations 2. coat or stuff with a spicy paste. 
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211. It has two castles, a Roman fort, a giant, the Devil and a sunken town.
212. It glared and it floated and it flew like the Devil.
213. And the poor devil can't hide a thing from her.
214. The Devil had put on his clothes - dark, close-fitting clothes - and had come sloping back.
215. To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child.
216. Henry Compton was a good school, and I was a reasonable pupil - no cherub, but no devil either.
217. For much of the Bloc, then, the solution may be to opt for the devil they know.
218. Eliot has it perhaps worse than I have - poor devil.
219. Some people think he was the devil incarnate; others think he was a great social critic.
220. What I fear for my people is milk in which the devil lurks between the froth and the cream.
221. So much, thought Blanche,(http://sentencedict.com/devil.html) for flirting with the lascivious old devil.
222. Beside him stood a devil in red tights with horns and a forked tail.
223. A true old devil, Manson vanishes in a puff of smoke.
224. Invoice this domineering devil for every minute of your time, Caroline!
225. They are a frontal assault of the Devil not only upon believers but on human beings everywhere.
226. Every third Tuesday they do the devil dance or the witch sniffing or whatever you want to call it there.
227. It was almost as if there was a devil inside him.
228. When he jokingly referred to the story that he was descended from the Devil he meant no disrespect to his ancestor Woden.
229. Is the devil we know better than the devil we don't know?
230. I asked her her name just in case it was the Devil in disguise and she told me who she was.
231. He was also, on the whole, for the Khedive on the grounds that at least he was the devil they knew.
232. Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. Ambrose Bierce 
233. Those who floated to the surface were merely declared to be in cahoots with the devil.
234. He was taking a devil of a time to change.
235. I was driving past and tried to stop this poor devil getting beaten up.
236. He was a handsome devil, clever and presumably extremely well off.
237. These high-yield debt securities are considered to be instruments of the devil.
238. In making a pact with this devil, Lancaster County made a Faustian bargain.
239. The Devil is not a djinn, Um Yusef, but is as with you.
240. If he filled those in they'd have a devil of a job lifting them!
More similar words: daredevildust devilvaudevilledevil's advocatespeak of the devilgive the devil his dueevildevisedeviatedevicedeviantdeviousdevicesdeviancedeviserdeviationexplosive devicerhetorical deviceneville chamberlaindevice characteristicvilevillicivilvillacavildevoutdevourvillusvilifyvilely
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