afreet

variants or afrit

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Noun
  • By the time Laras is making like Linda Blair, malicious jinn power resisting that of Almighty Allah, the film has already gone down a familiar path of grotesque makeup, stunts and digital FX.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The mushroom’s healing properties also lead to hallucinations, often involving mysterious white imps, who should be adorable and instead come across as menacing little ghouls.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025
  • And Dot — well, Dot keeps an imp in an old wine bottle.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • With the demon defeated and the haunting over, the Warrens get to experience something of a happily ever after, living to experience Judy’s wedding and see their daughter have her own baby.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Despite specifying various antics with pills, a belt-as-noose, and a gun, Cloud has given him no real demons to explore.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The little ghouls at your party will howl for this tropical smoothie.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2025
  • There are a lot of stock viewer-goosings: Screaming ghoul faces, crawling insects, waking nightmares and other jump scares, including the sonic kind of sudden loud noises or silences.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • By the time Laras is making like Linda Blair, malicious jinn power resisting that of Almighty Allah, the film has already gone down a familiar path of grotesque makeup, stunts and digital FX.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Poltergeists, jinn, and the Ghost of Christmas Past all count as metaphysical entities.
    Big Think, Big Think, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But the genie of populism is now out of the bottle and there is no going back.
    Jeff Kingston, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The social media post included a photo of Eden sitting and striking her signature genie pose from her popular NBC sitcom.
    Nicholas Rice, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The bright orange bucket, sporting Home Depot's logo, features jack-o'-lanterns, bats, ghosts, spiders and spiderwebs.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The ghosts of the Federal Theatre still haunt the 102-year-old movie house, and David Lindoerfer has seen them.
    John Wenzel, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Rather than hang out with the two old hags, Cherry decides to try her luck on the stand-up paddleboards with Brigitte and Daniel, but quickly loses her balance.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But when the island’s prince is kidnapped, an unlikely alliance of an ogre, hag, wizard and fey will have only days to sneak around London to save him.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
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“Afreet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afreet. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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