she-devil

[ shee-dev-il, -dev- ]

noun

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

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But it does show a gentler, more sympathetic side to the ‘she-devil’ seen in the tabloids.
Revealed: The Softer Side of Amanda Knox | Barbie Latza Nadeau | April 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Knox herself has been labeled both a “she-devil” and a “faithful” innocent.
Knox Case Nears Its Gaudy End | Barbie Latza Nadeau | September 29, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
Clara's father—he used sometimes when drunk to ask his wife, 'Who got you your blackbrowed she-devil there?
Dream Tales and Prose Poems | Ivan Turgenev
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.
Serapis, Complete | Georg Ebers
Damn you, if I had time, I'd wring your neck for this, you she-devil!
The White Moll | Frank L. Packard

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.
Two Wonderful Detectives | Harlan Page Halsey
She is either a goddess in her own right or the most treacherous old she-devil who ever sat in a heathen temple.
The Lamp in the Desert | Ethel M. Dell

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