as in Satan
the supreme personification of evil often represented as the ruler of hell he sold his soul to the archfiend

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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Pair with sausage and sauerkraut or with a dessert of devil’s food cake.
    Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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“Archfiend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archfiend. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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