Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as Mephistophelian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, “a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;” devilish in character or aspect; crafty; showing cunning or ingenuity or wickedness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative capitalization of
Mephistophelean
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil
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Examples
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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).
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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The short story draws on some recent search politics, namely Google's mephistophelean work in China, and adds digerati culture Burning Man, San Francisco.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Google meets the surveillance state: new sf story 2007
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So what mephistophelean miracle have you got in mind to achieve this, and what would I need to do?
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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So what mephistophelean miracle have you got in mind to achieve this, and what would I need to do?
Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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So what mephistophelean miracle have you got in mind to achieve this, and what would I need to do?
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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His mephistophelean eyebrows were raised interrogatively, and he was smiling so as to exhibit a row of uneven yellow teeth.
The Yellow Claw Sax Rohmer 1921
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And they didn't even play their somber, mephistophelean reworking of
The Line Of Best Fit Paul Bridgewater 2010
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And they didn't even play their somber, mephistophelean reworking of
The Line Of Best Fit Paul Bridgewater 2010
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And they didn't even play their somber, mephistophelean reworking of
The Line Of Best Fit Paul Bridgewater 2010
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And they didn't even play their somber, mephistophelean reworking of
The Line Of Best Fit Paul Bridgewater 2010
chained_bear commented on the word mephistophelean
Alt. spelling mephistophelian.
October 4, 2008