Skip to main content

she-devil

/shee-dev-il, -dev-/US // ˈʃiˈdɛv ɪl, -ˌdɛv- //

女魔头,母老虎,母夜叉,女巫

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a woman who resembles a devil, as in extreme wickedness, cruelty, or bad temper.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Wiseman as Samuel is alternately Devil-child and a cute young kid.

  • And without physical evidence, cases often come down to “he said/she said.”

  • The West would be wise to think of Putin as the devil it knows.

  • Can we imagine Stephen Vincent Benet writing The Devil and Barbara Boxer?

  • For both the possessed and the priest-practitioner, driving out the devil can be dangerous to mind, body and spirit.

  • Thus was the man left entirely to the devil, not even his life being reserved, as in the case of Job.

  • He desired his secretary to go to the devil, but, thinking better of it, he recalled him as he reached the door.

  • I cannot believe that a good God would create or tolerate a Devil, nor that he would allow the Devil to tempt man.

  • As the devil never wanted insinuators, I shall observe, that I learned a way how to make a man dream of what I pleased.

  • One day she had heard a man say, "If there is a drought we shall have the devil to pay with our stock before winter is over."