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showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil
devilish schemes
the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen
a mephistophelian glint in his eye
the diabolical expression on his face
How To Use mephistophelean In A Sentence
- The other is the Mephistophelean financier and arbitrageur Gordon Gekko, he of the power braces and the shark-like half-smile, half-snarl. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – review
- Let us be silent, Sire, and you may continue to show your Mephistophelean civilisation, and after you have crushed all those who are weaker and smaller than you, Sire, open your lips and preach upon their ruin to your admirers: _cantate Domino! Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916)