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Mephistophelian
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Adjective
en Mephistophelean.
en 1958 1972 w:Anthony Burgess The Enemy in the Blanket The Malayan Trilogy 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[.]
en 1989 Robert Slater Howard Aiken Early Inventors Portraits in Silicon The MIT Press 978-0262691314 And you can see from the Spockian ears and the raised eyebrows, he had a positive Mephistophelian look.
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