Definition: 1. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief. 2. A word used in exclamations of confusion. 3. A rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man). 4. A cruel wicked and inhuman person. 5. Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations.
Use 'devil' in a sentence:
1. 'What the devil's the matter?'
2. I felt sorry for Blake, poor devil.
3. How does the 57-year-old bring himself to now sup with the devil?
4. Go on, be a devil, buy both of them.
5. She has convinced herself that she is possessed by the devil.
6. "On mine honor, my friend," answered Zarathustra, "there is nothing of all that whereof you speak: there is no devil and no hell."
7. It's a devil of a tricky problem, isn't it?
8. Every one for himself and the devil take the hindmost.
9. Her father shall see her, I vowed, and vowed again, if that devil is killed on his own doorstones in trying to prevent it!
10. She's off to Greece for a month ─ lucky devil!
11. You're a scheming little devil, aren't you?
12. 'I think he was a bit of a devil,' Constance said.
13. We ran like the devil.
14. The peasant replied, "He says that the Devil is hiding outside there in the closet on the porch."
15. They sold themselves to the devil—such is their crime.
16. They believed she was possessed by devils.
17. She even claimed the couple's daughter was possessed by the devil.
18. He must have driven like the devil.
19. The leader seemed the devil incarnate.
20. At High Mass the priest preached a sermon on the devil.
21. They call you devil or they call you god.
22. Right now the poor old devil's drinking himself silly.
23. She blamed the crimes on the local jobless teenagers. 'The devil makes work for idle hands,' she would say.
24. That little devil progesterone may also be affecting your lungs causing you to huff and puff on long walks, upstairs or even doing the dishes.
25. Smith, it seems, is really the devil! The editor is frightened by this news, but he is more frightened by the idea of losing his newspaper, so he agrees to sign.
26. You sly old devil! How long have you known?
27. Susie, you're a determined little devil.
28. Many people have been attacked by Devil Firefish.
29. He drives himself on, working like the devil from seven in the morning until midnight.
30. The devil must have put them into your head.
31. She wanted to live onshore and find love so bad that she made a "deal" with a "devil" and "sells" her beautiful voice, or "soul" so to speak.
32. The devil shows the way to the third floor.
33. She's off to Greece for a month—lucky devil!
34. However, in the late 1980s, some scientists were exploring Devil' s Hole, which is basically an extensive water-filled cave, far from the ocean, in Nevada2, in the western United States.
35. Well, speak of the devil ─ here's Alice now!
36. The Mediterranean is a natural habitat of Devil Firefish.
37. What the devil do you think you're doing?
38. We had the devil's own job to persuade him to take part.
39. They were convinced the girls' behaviour was due to possession by the devil.
40. He was a miserable old devil.
41. There are legends which say that the devil can turn himself into any bird except for a dove.
42. I was a good devil, wasn't I?
43. He's a crafty old devil.
44. I've had a devil of a job finding you.
45. I miss the old devil, now that he's gone.
46. These berries are the devil to pick because they're so small.
47. Well, speak of the devil—here's Alice now!
48. Often the interviewer will need to play devil's advocate in order to get a discussion going.
