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Mephistophelean   Listen
adjective
Mephistophelian, Mephistophelean  adj.  Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, "a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;" devilish in character or aspect; crafty; showing cunning or ingenuity or wickedness; as, a mephistophelean glint in his eye.
Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean.





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"Mephistophelean" Quotes from Famous Books



... that seemed curiously at war with the shape of the features and with the position of the closed eyes, which were very near together. Julian, in describing Marr to Valentine, had pronounced him Satanic, and this dead face was, in truth, somewhat Mephistophelean. An artist might well have painted it upon his canvas as a devil. But he must have reproduced merely the features and colouring, the blue, shaven cheeks, and hollow eye-sockets; for the expression of his devil he would ...
— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens


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