Mephistophelian
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
Some of Adès’s madcap writing in the concerto may doff a hat to Busoni’s Mephistophelian masterpiece.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019
Lorne Malvo isn’t an antihero; he’s a Mephistophelian villain, and Lester Nygaard his contemptible, ear-flapped Faust.
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2014
"I do not say," he added with a Mephistophelian smile, "but what it was an understood thing between us, as I was allowed to see beforehand what her pocket contained."
From The Grandee by Palacio Valdés, Armando
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