devils in English

noun

1

(in Christian and Jewish belief) the chief evil spirit; Satan.

Did you find it any easier to avoid the Devil , to avoid evil when you were a monk?

synonyms: Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, the Evil One, Old Nick

2

expressing surprise or annoyance in various questions or exclamations.

“Where the devil is he?”

3

an instrument or machine, especially one fitted with sharp teeth or spikes, used for tearing or other destructive work.

General Mitchel, of counsel for the defendant, produced a model which was intended to represent a machine used in Great Britain for cleaning cotton, denominated the "Teazer or Devil ."

4

a junior assistant of a lawyer or other professional.

While under the master's guidance, which is generally for a year, the newly qualified barrister is known as a devil .

verb

1

act as a junior assistant for a lawyer or other professional.

As I'd never (to my knowledge) supped with the devil, I was thrilled to find myself in the company of a junior barrister who's devilling at the moment.

2

harass or worry (someone).

he was deviled by a new-found fear

noun

Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, the Evil One, Old Nick
evil spirit, demon, fiend, bogie, spook
brute, beast, monster, fiend, villain, sadist, barbarian, ogre
rascal, rogue, imp, fiend, monkey, wretch, monster, horror, scamp, tyke, varmint
wretch, unfortunate, creature, soul, person, fellow, thing, beggar
satan, lucifer, prince of darkness, old nick, the tempter
demon, daemon, fiend, daimon
deuce, dickens
hellion, heller
monster, demon, fiend, ogre

verb

irritate
irritate, annoy, rile, rag, nark, get at, get to, chafe, bother, gravel, vex, nettle

Use "devils" in a sentence

1. Devils' tongue starch paste

2. Let the serpents bite these devils.

3. The two foreign devils are in cahoots.

4. Give it up for your Blue Devils!

5. Which angels hold. And devils pull apart.

6. Where do you get these poor devils?

7. Devils Game Day Daily Washington Capitals news

8. They believed she was possessed by devils.

9. And you invited all devils to eat his flesh

10. Devil must be driven out with devils. 

11. 1 Small dust devils swirled through the ashes.

12. Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils

13. Her mother said she was possessed by devils.

14. 2 Gothic churches are full of devils and grotesque figures.

15. Bamboozling the Devils: numbers for the morning after

16. Examples of Cyclonic storms: dust devils, supercell thunderstorms, torna

17. Gothic churches are full of devils and grotesque figures.

18. There may be devils afoot, though not necessarily white.

19. The newness of the right hemisphere makes it the devils advocate.

20. Today and tomorrow I cast out devils and work cures.

21. Succubi, devils, witches, magicians, vampires, werewolves, ghosts and wild boars.

22. Angelology Devils and Demons: Unclean Spirits Introduction Cork Bible Institute Page 31 Devils and Demons: Unclean SpiritsDevils an d Demons: Unclean Spiritsd Demons: Unclean Spirits “But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.” (1Cor 10:20)

23. The Devils Bedstead West is double-summited, and complex mountain

24. There are blue devils and blue ribbons and blue bloods.

25. LeAnn Ashers’s most popular book is Torch (Devils Souls MC, #1).

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27. Devils Garden Campground is the only campground at Arches National Park

28. Gruesome cancer Afflicting Tasmanian devils may be waning, a hopeful sign

29. If only those ack-ack devils would shoot like that all the time!

30. The four poor devils grew pale and glanced apprehensively at one another.

31. Beelzebub, also called Baalzebub, in the Bible, the prince of the devils

32. But the Bruins snoozed through the final minutes, allowing the Sun Devils to rally.

33. The national team's supporting group is officially referred to as the Red Devils.

34. Canals already are fished by sneaky devils, who learn where fish congregate.

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36. Hence, all devils in a region are part of a single social network.

37. The Binghamton Devils is the Minor League Hockey team here in Binghamton, NY

38. The intensity of heating culminates at perihelion, when dust devils become very numerous.

39. Synonyms for Afreets include demons, devils, fiends, imps, ghouls, ghoulies, goblins, cacodemons, shaitans and ghosts

40. Secondly, and crucially, it is not sophisticated exegesis that leads scholars to disbelieve in devils.

41. In Czechoslovakia, historians have stated that devils played a more important role than gods.

42. Devils Beggarticks is primarily a weed of pastures, hay fields, roadsides, landscapes, and nurseries

43. 2 The intensity of heating culminates at perihelion, when dust devils become very numerous.

44. Devils Beggarticks is primarily a weed of pastures, hay fields, roadsides, landscapes, and nurseries

45. Witches, devils, demons, In the USA, communism, communists, socialism and socialists were also used as Bogeymen

46. 2020 Kangaroos, koalas, Tasmanian devils, dingoes, jumping spiders and wild Budgies are featured in the

47. Devils Beggarticks is similar in appearance to Coreopsis Beggarticks (Bidens polylepis) and Spanishneedles (Bidens

48. Butcher agreed to a two-year, entry-level contract with the Devils on Aug

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50. In 1971, she made her film debut as an extra in Ken Russell's The Devils.