Mephistopheles
noun
one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
Mephistophelian
-
a word derived from
Mephistopheles.
Example Sentences
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If gangsta rap is L.A.’s most famous musical export of the last three decades, it has come with a Mephistophelian curse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
Sharon Stone leans into her Mephistophelian role as record exec.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
The series encourages our suspicion that Sabrina is more important to the Mephistophelian realm than she understands, which explains everybody’s jockeying for her soul.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2018
Which seems to me to be even less of a reason to cash in that identity in for the Mephistophelian allure of the mineral-rich economy of Australia.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2010
His scepticism regarding virtue she calls fearful, his spirit Mephistophelian.
From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Julia Ward Howe
