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Recent Examples of Beelzebub
The Zeros are sworn to Evil and to its incarnate commander, Beelzebub (Fabrice Luchini), who barks his orders from a Versailles-like castle in the sky above the village.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2025
Fraser was bedeviled by Elizabeth Hurley’s Beelzebub in Bedazzled (2000), earned career-best reviews for the Vietnam drama The Quiet American (2002), and landed a role in the Best Picture-winning Crash (2004).
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2024
In truth, the Satanist movement is more about separation of church and state than actually praising Beelzebub.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 15 May 2024
Cue Beelzebub herself, who arrives with a contract granting him seven wishes in exchange for his soul.
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
Apple Somewhere, ol' Beelzebub is putting on his thickest coat because Apple has endorsed a right-to-repair bill, suggesting hell has frozen over.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2023
The demon party really takes off at that point, with two more hellhounds joining Doja in the attic for a Beelzebub dance party.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 Sep. 2023
In the finale, it’s revealed that Gabriel had slowly formed a romantic relationship with the head demon Beelzebub (Shelley Conn) following the events of the first season, when Heaven and Hell called off the first apocalypse thanks to Crowley and Aziraphale.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 28 July 2023
Like many presentations of the devil from the 17th century onward, the Judge, who may or may not be Beelzebub, is a fiddle player.
—Caine O'Rear, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2025
Fraser was bedeviled by Elizabeth Hurley’s Beelzebub in Bedazzled (2000), earned career-best reviews for the Vietnam drama The Quiet American (2002), and landed a role in the Best Picture-winning Crash (2004).
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2024
In truth, the Satanist movement is more about separation of church and state than actually praising Beelzebub.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 15 May 2024
Cue Beelzebub herself, who arrives with a contract granting him seven wishes in exchange for his soul.
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
Apple Somewhere, ol' Beelzebub is putting on his thickest coat because Apple has endorsed a right-to-repair bill, suggesting hell has frozen over.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2023
The demon party really takes off at that point, with two more hellhounds joining Doja in the attic for a Beelzebub dance party.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 Sep. 2023
In the finale, it’s revealed that Gabriel had slowly formed a romantic relationship with the head demon Beelzebub (Shelley Conn) following the events of the first season, when Heaven and Hell called off the first apocalypse thanks to Crowley and Aziraphale.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 28 July 2023
Like many presentations of the devil from the 17th century onward, the Judge, who may or may not be Beelzebub, is a fiddle player.
—Caine O'Rear, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Beelzebub
Noun
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At Logan, upon her return from Lebanon to the Great Satan (as her Hezbollah heart-throbs call the US), the feds got a load of the pictures of multiple Muslim terrorists on her phone.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
19 Mar. 2025
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Join 1 other in the comments View Comments RJ Rushmore, an art enthusiast from Philadelphia, began closely following MSCHF’s work following the Satan Shoes controversy in 2021 and, soon after, started collecting pieces from its drops.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Pair with sausage and sauerkraut or with a dessert of devil’s food cake.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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People who have never seen a Griffith film deride him as a devil without any redeeming qualities.—
Colin Fleming,
New York Daily News,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Just like this Fire sign, Lucifer craves admiration and love, often going to great lengths to get it.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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My favorite of all is Peter Stormare as Lucifer himself, floating down in a white suit and bare feet covered in tar like some infernal version of a southern roué whose eyebrows were seared off by the flames of hell.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Beelzebub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Beelzebub. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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