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as in Satan
capitalized the supreme personification of evil often represented as the ruler of hell the Devil is traditionally seen as a being who relentlessly tempts people to commit evil

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as in cowboy
a person who seeks out very dangerous or foolhardy adventures with no apparent fear originally snowboarders were regarded as devils on the slopes and a menace to skiers

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Recent Examples of devil
Noun
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 The closing scene is Trump relaxing on a sun lounger next to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is widely portrayed as a devil in Gaza. Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
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Starters: baby iceberg wedge lettuce; burrata cheese with prosciutto ham, balsamic reduction and micro basil; pimento cheese deviled eggs with Kentucky chow-chow and mixed greens; baked crab cake served over bib lettuce with Julienne apples and smoky garlic aioli; soup de jour. The Courier-Journal, 5 Apr. 2023 It’s also designed to better accommodate female astronauts, a problem that has deviled the space agency in the past. Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for devil
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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
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  • Yet beneath the pristine public persona were demons that would drive him to alcoholism, scandal, and death from an overdose in 2012.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2025
  • As Ema pursues the truth, she is forced to confront her own demons.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 25 Mar. 2025
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  • Nash retired from basketball in 2014 but then served as the general manager for the Canadian men's national team and became the coaching consultant with the Golden State Warriors.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The woman told police a man arrived at her residence around 5:30 p.m. that day, provided the correct passcode and collected the cash.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2025
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  • Such exports are legal, as long as the monkeys are properly labeled.
    ByRefael Kubersky, science.org, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Just then, there was a flash of lightning, and the monkey’s paw wriggled in the old man’s hand.
    Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Majors also played the mega villain He Who Remains in Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Loki and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaia.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025
  • As previously announced, Robert Downey Jr. will be back as the villain Doctor Doom instead of Iron Man.
    Michaela Zee, Variety, 26 Mar. 2025
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  • Instead, stabilizers are cowboys tasked with wrangling a very specific herd: water.
    Ali Bouzari, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • How many movie cowboys would admit that? ‘Shirkers’ (2018) Stream it on Netflix.
    Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Detective Lee Yeon-hui (played by Shin Hyun-been of Hospital Playlist and Reborn Rich) is assigned to the case and also chases after the suspect, all the while being tormented by visions of her dead sister.
    Regina Kim, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The story follows the three Maxwell siblings who grew up as the only Black family in a gated Dallas neighborhood, also tormented by strange and unexplainable demonic happenings in their house.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
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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
  • 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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“Devil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devil. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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