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US
/ˈdimən/
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[ UK /dˈiːmən/ ]
[ UK /dˈiːmən/ ]
NOUN
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
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someone extremely diligent or skillful
she's a demon at math
he worked like a demon to finish the job on time - an evil supernatural being
How To Use demon In A Sentence
- There is so much to enjoy here that it is a pity that a good deal of the information imparted is demonstrably wrong. The Times Literary Supplement
- Above: South Shore terminus with four Dreadnoughts in line abreast, demonstrating their legendary capacity to absorb crowds.
- Note that you'll be able to find the demonstration projects themselves as open-source projects on the companion site to the column (see Resources).
- The game's protagonist, Laharl, a self-absorbed demon who also happens to be prince to the throne of the netherworld, is as unlikely a ‘hero’ as one could expect.
- The security police quickly squelched an extremely rare public demonstration demanding political reform on Monday, the 41st anniversary of the Baath Party's seizure of power here.
- At the beginning of the protest, Aristide partisans attacked demonstrators, hitting one with a rock and shooting another.
- This is a clear demonstration of how technology has changed.
- Jenny says if services do grind to a halt for a day it will at least demonstrate the importance and value of the work council staff do.
- Country pursuits on offer include sheep-racing, woodcarving with chainsaws, small-bore rifle-shooting, wool-spinning, bee demonstrations, candle-making and ferret-racing.
- Vocab from The Varieties of Religious Experience aseity the property by which a being exists of and from itself; usually used in connection to God apodictic Necessarily or demonstrably true; incontrovertible.concatenated To connect or link in a series or chain.decide Of course, I already knew the definition; it's hardly an unusual word. Archive 2005-08-01