dickens

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Recent Examples of dickens His absentee boss, whose own messaging often has been the dickens to decipher, obviously feels OK with what’s gone on here. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022 One very important part of that care is pruning, something that scares the dickens out of people. Steve Bender, Southern Living, 30 Apr. 2021 There was Bienchen in a nutshell: cute as the dickens but equipped with lacerating teeth. Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021 The way the Rams’ game imploded should scare the dickens out of L.A.’s players and coaches. Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dickens
Noun
  • By then Twain had several reasons to believe that both his favor toward Satan and Olivia’s favor toward God were unreciprocated.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
  • According to tradition, Satan, disguised as a dragon, swallowed St. Margaret whole.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • The Zeros are sworn to Evil and to its incarnate commander, Beelzebub (Fabrice Luchini), who barks his orders from a Versailles-like castle in the sky above the village.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Fraser was bedeviled by Elizabeth Hurley’s Beelzebub in Bedazzled (2000), earned career-best reviews for the Vietnam drama The Quiet American (2002), and landed a role in the Best Picture-winning Crash (2004).
    Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The 10-episode Exiles comes from a new creative team, with Jason Ning (Lucifer) as showrunner.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 21 May 2025
  • Production on the spinoff is set to begin this summer in Los Angeles, with Jason Ning (Lucifer, Mrs. Davis) tapped to serve as showrunner.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 19 May 2025

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“Dickens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dickens. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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