Mephistopheles

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Railroad magnate and speculator Jay Gould was dubbed “the Mephistopheles of Wall Street” by ministers on the pulpit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

In life, however, Höfgen plays Faust, the weak, tempted one, while the part of Mephistopheles is taken by the Nazi state and its functionaries.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2020

Rubbing his hands together, gleefully, like some kind of cut-rate Mephistopheles.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019

Slipak, who had won fame in France for his renditions of the aria of Mephistopheles from the opera “Faust,” adopted the nom-de-guerre Meph.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2016

In short, she was the ideal victim and was selected as such by Mephistopheles who, whatever else he may have been, was a judge of character.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise