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

Who ever imagined, for example, combatting the archfiend with handguns and encrypted e-mail?

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

Ahriman is the archfiend, who struggles with Ormuzd, not for the possession of a herd of perishable cattle, but for the dominion of the universe.

From Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by Fiske, John