Synonyms for the devil
the dev·il

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1. the deviladverb

   Synonyms:
   the heck, in hell, in heaven, in heavens, in Gods name, the blazes, in damnation, on earth, in heavens name, the dickens, in tarnation, the hell

Princeton's WordNet

1. the devilnoun

   something difficult or awkward to do or deal with

   "it will be the devil to solve"

Matched Categories

1. • Trouble

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1. Proverb:

   When the flatterer pipes, the devil dances.

2. Labour Leader:

   They always say, Mr. Speaker, the devil is in the detail. And, having seen the detail, it confirms everything we thought about this rotten deal.

3. John Rhys-Davies:

   They are afraid of being judged as being partisan. Heaven forbid that we should criticize people who, after all, share a different value system. 'But it's all relevant. It's all equally relative. We're all the same. And God and the devil, they're the same, aren't they, really? Right and wrong? It's really just two faces of the same coin,' we have lost our moral compass completely, and, unless we find it, we're going to lose our civilization. I think we're going to lose Western European Christian civilization, anyway.

4. Richard Blumenthal:

   Privacy is all the rage. Bipartisan. But as frequently happens, the devil is in the details.

5. Albert Einstein:

   The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.