the devil

Meaning

1. Editorial70% of films

   Satan, or a person or power thought of as extremely evil or cruel

2. Editorial15% of films

   Said when the person just mentioned appears

3. Editorial10% of films

   Used in questions to show surprise, annoyance, or emphasis

4. Oxford5% of films

   very difficult or unpleasant

In the movies · 81

• And the devil has much better tasteCruella2021
• How the devil should she know how I slept?The Ghost and Mrs. Muir1947
• Doldrums. Doldrums. Eviler than the Devil.The Lighthouse2019
• What the devil?Wonka2023
• The Devil is precise;The Crucible2014
• Defy the devil.Twelfth Night2012
• I'm the devil,Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood2019
• The devil, David.Shine1996

Learn it in full scenes

• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir1947
  • Lucy Leaves Her In-Laws' House
  • Lucy Insists on Gull Cottage
  • Lucy Rents the Haunted House
• The Crucible2014
  • Parris Demands the Truth From Abigail
  • Ann Putnam Cries Witchcraft
  • Abigail Threatens the Girls
• Twelfth Night2012
  • Orsino's Speech on Music and Love
  • Viola Disguises Herself as a Man
  • Sir Andrew Boasts About Dancing

From the same entry

• be a devil
• better the devil you know
• between the devil and the deep blue sea
• the devil looks after his own
• the devil makes work for idle hands
• a devil of a job
• go to the devil
• like the devil
• speak of the devil
• what, where, who, why, the devil
• the devil to pay
• sell your soul