Synonyms for dickens
ˈdɪk ɪnz; ˈhʌf əmdick·ens

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1. devil, deuce, dickensnoun

   a word used in exclamations of confusion

   "what the devil"; "the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say"

   Synonyms:
   monster, daemon, heller, two, hellion, fiend, deuce, devil, demon, ogre, daimon, the Tempter

2. Dickens, Charles Dickens, Charles John Huffam Dickensnoun

   English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)

   Synonyms:
   deuce, devil

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1. John Berger:

   Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

2. Dimitrios Pagourtzis:

   We are trying like the dickens to treat the symptoms, not the disease, the disease isn’t the Second Amendment.

3. Ali Carter:

   I'm chief of staff to Andre Dickens, oK, well you still have a warrant for your arrest.

4. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 3 scene 2:

   I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

5. Archibald MacLeish:

   The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.