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

This is Lorne Malvo, played with a Mephistophelian smirk and evil hair by Billy Bob Thornton.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2014

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

A shadow of the world and the flesh falls across the brooding figure, a Napoleonic vulgarity coarsens the features, there is a Mephistophelian wrinkle in the corner of the lips.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel