Mephistophelian
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Alternative form of Mephistophelean. alt-of, alternative
"But, sitting by the opening of Ismail's Muslim Eating Shop, Inder Singh was spooning in soup, tall, thin, saturnine, his beard cut, contrary to the laws of religion, trimmed in a Mephistophelian manner, his turban neat and starched[.]"
Adjective
- 1 showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil wordnet
Example
More examples"But, sitting by the opening of Ismail's Muslim Eating Shop, Inder Singh was spooning in soup, tall, thin, saturnine, his beard cut, contrary to the laws of religion, trimmed in a Mephistophelian manner, his turban neat and starched[.]"
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