she-devil
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But Depp's performance as a crumbling shell of a man under assault by a she-devil he says he regrets marrying?
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2022
In the novel, Ruth desexes herself, as surely as Lady Macbeth, going from woman to self-described she-devil.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2018
Mitchell’s way of rationalizing her she-devil protagonist was to maintain that Melanie was the heroine, not Scarlett.
From Time ● Dec. 15, 2014
They were convicted in 2009 amid lurid headlines calling Knox a she-devil - but an appeal court acquitted the couple two years later after defence lawyers exposed flaws in the original investigation.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2013
What was the surprise of the chaplain to find in the landlady a real she-devil in politics, and utterly inexorable to all appeals to her charity and hospitality.
From Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive by Alf Burnett
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