Mephistophelian

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Mephistophelian (comparative more Mephistophelian, superlative most Mephistophelian)

  1. Alternative form of Mephistophelean
    • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 288:
      But, sitting by the opening of Ismail's Muslim Eating Shop, Inder Singh was spooning in soup, tall, thin, saturnine, his beard cut, contrary to the laws of religion, trimmed in a Mephistophelian manner, his turban neat and starched[.]
    • 1989, Howard Aiken, “Early Inventors”, in Robert Slater, editor, Portraits in Silicon, The MIT Press, →ISBN:
      And you can see from the Spockian ears and the raised eyebrows, he had a positive Mephistophelian look.