archfiend
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Granted, it has been enriched by its association with Dr. Mabuse, the archfiend of fiction, screen and comic books, starting with the novels of Norbert Jacques and the films of Fritz Lang.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2010
The hunchbacked creature was Al Pacino, in makeup and costume as the archfiend Big Boy Caprice, and the object of his admiration was Warren Beatty.
From Time Magazine Archive
If I took this $600,000 and personally appropriated it, I would be the archfiend of the ages.
From Time Magazine Archive
Who ever imagined, for example, combatting the archfiend with handguns and encrypted e-mail?
From Time Magazine Archive
The archfiend himself is often distinguished by the softened title of the "good-man."
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Sir Walter Scott
