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  • as inshrew
  • as invixen

synonyms for she-devil

  • backbiter
  • battle-ax
  • bitch
  • carper
  • detractor
  • dragon
  • fire-eater
  • fishwife
  • fury
  • harpy
  • harridan
  • hellion
  • muckraker
  • nag
  • ogress
  • porcupine
  • scold
  • spitfire
  • termagant
  • tigress
  • virago
  • vixen
  • calumniator
  • hell cat
  • reviler
  • she-wolf
  • vituperator
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to she-devil, such as: backbiter, battle-ax, bitch, carper, detractor, and dragon.
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How to use she-devil in a sentence

Clara's father—he used sometimes when drunk to ask his wife, 'Who got you your blackbrowed she-devil there?
DREAM TALES AND PROSE POEMSIVAN TURGENEV
To have sung in the temple of the she-devil Isis with Gorgo and the other worshippers would have cost her her seat in Paradise.
SERAPIS, COMPLETEGEORG EBERS
Damn you, if I had time, I'd wring your neck for this, you she-devil!
THE WHITE MOLLFRANK L. PACKARD
This second Mrs. Canfield was a she-devil, one of the worst women I ever met in all my life, and her children were imps.
TWO WONDERFUL DETECTIVESHARLAN PAGE HALSEY
She is either a goddess in her own right or the most treacherous old she-devil who ever sat in a heathen temple.
THE LAMP IN THE DESERTETHEL M. DELL
She-devil, indeed, Cervera had set fire to a crumpled newspaper, with which to illuminate the bottom of the well.
WITH LINKS OF STEELNICHOLAS CARTER
Where is the she-devil that drove one man mad, that sent another to hell by his own hand, that eternally broke and ruined me?
MRS. SKAGGS'S HUSBANDS AND OTHER STORIESBRET HARTE
The “she-devil of a Concubine,” she said, was thinking of nothing save of how to get the ladies despatched.
THE DIVORCE OF CATHERINE OF ARAGONJ.A. FROUDE
After mistaking Eliza Hitchener for an angel, he soon mistook her for a brown she-devil.
THE REAL SHELLEY, VOL. II (OF 2)JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON
It was ever thus,” replied Ulenspiegel, “that the lovely she-devil spake to the glorious Saint Anthony.
THE LEGEND OF ULENSPIEGEL, VOL. II (OF 2)CHARLES DE COSTER
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO SHE-DEVIL

  • backbiter
  • battle-ax
  • bitch
  • calumniator
  • carper
  • detractor
  • dragon
  • fire-eater
  • fishwife
  • fury
  • harpy
  • harridan
  • hell cat
  • hellion
  • muckraker
  • nag
  • ogress
  • porcupine
  • reviler
  • scold
  • she-devil
  • she-wolf
  • spitfire
  • termagant
  • tigress
  • virago
  • vituperator
  • vixen
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.