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she-devil

[shee-dev-il, -dev-] / ˈʃiˈdɛv ɪl, -ˌdɛv- /




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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

It is a nice touch that the person with the most sympathy for this Faustian she-devil turns out not to be the poet.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022

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

He read them through and said, 'In this case, either Belisarius and all of us are ruined--or the beautiful she-devil will fall!

From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix




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