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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.
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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
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
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At Logan, upon her return from Lebanon to the Great Satan (as her Hezbollah heart-throbs call the US), the feds got a load of the pictures of multiple Muslim terrorists on her phone.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
19 Mar. 2025
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Join 1 other in the comments View Comments RJ Rushmore, an art enthusiast from Philadelphia, began closely following MSCHF’s work following the Satan Shoes controversy in 2021 and, soon after, started collecting pieces from its drops.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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The end of the first season saw Dream (Tom Sturridge) endeavor to become a gentler overlord of the Dreaming; meanwhile, Gwendoline Christie's malevolent Lucifer Morningstar plots with Roger Allam's Lord Azazel to foil Dream's plans, and wreak havoc on the entire waking world.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Created and written by Sean Steinberg, the show is being produced by Adam Thal under The Star Film Company banner and Lucifer actress Lesley-Ann Brandt.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Dickens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dickens. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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