devil (n.)
- adventurer
- adventuress
- adversary
- annoy
- antagonist
- ape-man
- badger
- bait
- bake
- barbarian
- barbecue
- baste
- beachcomber
- beast
- beggar
- beldam
- berserk
- berserker
- blackguard
- blighter
- bloke
- boil
- bomber
- booger
- bother
- bravo
- brew
- bristle
- broil
- brown
- brute
- buffoon
- bug
- bugger
- bully
- bullyboy
- bum
- bummer
- cacodemon
- caitiff
- chap
- coddle
- compositor
- cook
- crone
- curry
- cutthroat
- daredevil
- demon
- derelict
- desperado
- deuce
- distemper
- do
- dog
- dragon
- drifter
- drunkard
- dybbuk
- elf
- enemy
- exercise
- fellow
- fiend
- fire
- fire-eater
- firebrand
- foe
- foeman
- fox
- fricassee
- frizz
- fry
- fury
- genie
- genius
- get
- ghoul
- good-for-naught
- good-for-nothing
- goon
- gorilla
- griddle
- grill
- gripe
- gunman
- guy
- gyre
- hag
- harmattan
- harpy
- harry
- harum-scarum
- heat
- heckle
- hector
- hellcat
- hellhound
- hellion
- hobo
- hood
- hoodlum
- hooligan
- hothead
- hotspur
- hound
- imp
- incendiary
- incubus
- irk
- jinni
- joker
- jokester
- khamsin
- killer
- knave
- lamia
- limb
- lowlife
- madcap
- miff
- minx
- mischief
- mischief-maker
- monster
- mugger
- nag
- needle
- nettle
- ogre
- ogress
- operator
- pan
- peeve
- person
- pique
- pixie
- plague
- pother
- prankster
- pressman
- printer
- puck
- rake
- rakehell
- rapist
- rapscallion
- rascal
- revolutionary
- ride
- rile
- roast
- rogue
- roil
- rough
- rowdy
- ruffian
- ruffle
- samiel
- sandstorm
- satan
- saute
- savage
- scalawag
- scallop
- scamp
- scapegrace
- scoundrel
- serpent
- shaitan
- shrew
- shyster
- simmer
- simoom
- sirocco
- slyboots
- smoothie
- sneak
- sod
- spitfire
- steam
- stew
- stiff
- succubus
- sundowner
- swagman
- tease
- termagant
- terror
- terrorist
- thug
- tiger
- tigress
- toast
- torment
- tough
- tramp
- trickster
- truant
- typesetter
- typographer
- unfortunate
- vagabond
- vagrant
- vampire
- vex
- villain
- virago
- vixen
- wag
- wastrel
- werewolf
- witch
- wolf
- worry
- wretch
devil (v.)
- aggravate
- annoy
- badger
- bait
- bake
- barbecue
- baste
- bedevil
- beggar
- beset
- blackguard
- blanch
- boil
- bother
- braise
- bravo
- brew
- bristle
- broil
- brown
- bug
- bugger
- bully
- bullyrag
- bum
- chap
- chivy
- coddle
- cook
- curry
- discompose
- distemper
- disturb
- do
- dog
- elf
- exasperate
- exercise
- fire
- fox
- fricassee
- frizz
- frizzle
- fry
- get
- goon
- griddle
- grill
- gripe
- guy
- hag
- harass
- harry
- heat
- heckle
- hector
- hood
- hound
- imp
- irk
- limb
- miff
- molest
- mugger
- nag
- needle
- nettle
- ogress
- pan
- pan-broil
- parboil
- peeve
- persecute
- pester
- pique
- plague
- poach
- pother
- prepare
- provoke
- rake
- ride
- rile
- roast
- rogue
- roil
- rough
- ruffle
- saute
- savage
- scallop
- scamp
- sear
- shirr
- shrew
- simmer
- sneak
- sod
- steam
- stew
- tease
- toast
- torment
- tramp
- vagabond
- vex
- wag
- witch
- wolf
- worry
devil (adv.)
devil (adj.)
- barbarian
- berserk
- brew
- brown
- brute
- bully
- bum
- caitiff
- cutthroat
- daredevil
- derelict
- do
- dog
- elf
- fellow
- fire
- get
- good-for-naught
- good-for-nothing
- guy
- harum-scarum
- heat
- imp
- incendiary
- madcap
- mugger
- no-good
- pan
- person
- rake
- revolutionary
- rile
- roast
- rough
- rowdy
- saute
- savage
- sear
- sneak
- stiff
- terror
- terrorist
- tough
- truant
- unfortunate
- vagabond
- vagrant
- vex
- violent
The Devil was sick,—the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well,—the devil a monk was he.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary, the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to.
The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
The bane of all that dread the Devil.
There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd
The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king.
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.
God never had a church but there, men say,
The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles.
I doubted of this saw, till on a day
I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Gyles.
No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.
Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And 't will be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
What, man! defy the Devil: consider, he is an enemy to mankind.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.
Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.
He must needs go that the devil drives.
Needs must when the Devil drives.
They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
Scampering as if the Devil drove them.
Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.
So over violent, or over civil,
That every man with him was God or Devil.
'T is the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil.
Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.
Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
So over violent, or over civil,
That every man with him was God or Devil.
Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And 't will be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.
The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.
Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?
He will give the devil his due.
Pretty! in amber to observe the forms
Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!
The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,
But wonder how the devil they got there.
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd
For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
The Devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice,
An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.
From his brimstone bed, at break of day,
A-walking the Devil is gone,
To look at his little snug farm of the World,
And see how his stock went on.
The heart of man is the place the Devil's in: I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
There was a laughing devil in his sneer.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the Devil in.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.
Renounce the Devil and all his works.
Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
He must needs go whom the devil drives.—
Are these the choice dishes the Doctor has sent us?
Is this the great poet whose works so content us?
This Goldsmith's fine feast, who has written fine books?
Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks?
Abash'd the devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
Virtue in her shape how lovely.
With devotion's visage
And pious action we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.
And bid the devil take the hin'most.
While you live, tell truth and shame the devil!
Speak the truth and shame the Devil.
Cas. Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.
Iago. Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used.
Good at a fight, but better at a play;
Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay.
He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the Devil in.
The Devil was sick,—the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well,—the devil a monk was he.
Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I 'll have a suit of sables.
And thus I clothe my naked villany
With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ,
And seem a saint when most I play the devil.
O woman, perfect woman! what distraction
Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd
Firm concord holds, men only disagree
Of creatures rational.
The world, the flesh, and the devil.
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
