she-devil

[ shee-dev-il, -dev- ]

noun

1. a woman who resembles a devil, as in extreme wickedness, cruelty, or bad temper.

Example Sentences

But it does show a gentler, more sympathetic side to the ‘she-devil’ seen in the tabloids.

From The Daily Beast

Knox herself has been labeled both a “she-devil” and a “faithful” innocent.

From The Daily Beast

Clara's father—he used sometimes when drunk to ask his wife, 'Who got you your blackbrowed she-devil there?

From Project Gutenberg

To have sung in the temple of the she-devil Isis with Gorgo and the other worshippers would have cost her her seat in Paradise.

From Project Gutenberg

Damn you, if I had time, I'd wring your neck for this, you she-devil!

From Project Gutenberg

This second Mrs. Canfield was a she-devil, one of the worst women I ever met in all my life, and her children were imps.

From Project Gutenberg

She is either a goddess in her own right or the most treacherous old she-devil who ever sat in a heathen temple.

From Project Gutenberg