dybbuks
- plural of dybbuk.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Kroll and Mr. Mulaney don’t so much portray Gil and George as allow themselves to be taken over by them, as if by dybbuks.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2015
This is the thing with dybbuks, they know how to get under your skin.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2013
The attributions are graceful but hardly necessary, for Poe and Melville rattle around in this book like a couple of dybbuks.
From Time Magazine Archive
The images he conjured with the insect-like scratchings of his inked nib possessed him as dybbuks their host.
From Time Magazine Archive
Critics sometimes complain about how many of Singer's characters behave irrationally and about how many of his plots hinge on the machinations of dybbuks or the fist of fate.
From Time Magazine Archive
