(n.) The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.
(n.) An evil spirit; a demon.
(n.) A very wicked person; hence, any great evil.
(n.) An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation.
(n.) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
(n.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
(v. t.) To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
(v. t.) To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
Example Sentences:
(1) From Africa, the archbishop of Kenya warned "the devil has entered the church", while a few days before the ceremony Robinson received a postcard from England, depicting the high altar of Durham cathedral and bearing the message: "You fornicating, lecherous pig."
(2) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
(3) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
(4) The experience of having had intercourse with the devil has in the past been regarded as evidence that the individual is a witch.
(5) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
(6) "The devil is in the detail and if the conditions are too much it could be very challenging to run it as a commercial operation," said one source.
(7) I do want to rule the world.” Bowie was also getting unhealthily interested in the occult; in her memoir, his then wife Angie Bowie describes how he was convinced that the indoor pool in their house in Doheny Drive was possessed by the devil , which led to the pair of them attempting an exorcism.
(8) Camille O'Sullivan In 2007, the sinister, humorous gem Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea spread like wildfire just after its opening, and you had to kill to get a ticket.
(9) Taking out such a deal was, in their view, tantamount to getting into bed with the devil – and certainly out of the question for a prudent financial journalist.
(10) Mitt Romney praises Trump after 'deal with the devil' dinner Read more “It’s not about revenge, it’s about what’s good for the country, and I’m able to put this stuff behind us,” Trump said in a television interview on NBC’s Today show on Friday.
(11) An entire generation has come to embrace the deflationary devil they know.
(12) Instead, Schieffer repeatedly pushed even Hayden to go further in his defense of the NSA and in his attacks on Snowden than Hayden wanted to, asking such tough "questions" like this one, about Obama's proposal to have a "devils' advocate in the FISA court: "BOB SCHIEFFER: Well-- well let me just cite an example and let's say that the NSA runs across something that they think an attack on the country is imminent-- "GENERAL MICHAEL HAYDEN: Right.
(13) Some tours take tourists to mask shops; we should be taking them to the mask makers, so that they get paid for their work directly.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A fearsome devil mask Photograph: Alamy The current government, which replaced Rajapaksa’s administration two years ago, has made a commitment to sustainable tourism.
(14) Meanwhile, a number of writers have publicly come out against the second deal – including Ursula Le Guin, who resigned from the Authors Guild amid accusations that it was making a "deal with the devil" and selling its members "down the river" .
(15) The official code of conduct for special advisers adopts legalistic terms to describe their key role as "devilling", or squirrelling away at all government policy and communications to ensure it toes the appropriate political line.
(16) Once Leveson has published, the debate will finally be at this level of detail because that is where the devil is.
(17) In addition, Tyson had told the Mail on Sunday : “There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the Devil comes home.
(18) Debbie Abrahams, shadow work and pensions secretary, said: “As ever with this government though, the devil is in the detail.
(19) The "Death Angels" believed they had a better chance of getting to heaven if they killed some of these "grafted snakes" and "blue-eyed devils".
(20) On a trip to the Near East, Dadd became deluded that the Egyptian god Osiris was directing him to eliminate the devil's influence.
Scamp
Definition:
(n.) A rascal; a swindler; a rogue.
(a.) To perform in a hasty, neglectful, or imperfect manner; to do superficially.
Example Sentences:
(1) SCAMP 33 is found in all secretory carrier membranes studied so far while SCAMP 35 is found in exocrine and certain endocrine granules and liver Golgi membranes and SCAMP31 only in exocrine granules.
(2) Lady Cockburn is a bountiful loving mother, her children playful scamps - and even Reynolds's pet macaw gets into the picture, introduced for balance, but adding just a hint of the exotic, and of empire.
(3) A high specific activity derivative of cyclic AMP was prepared by synthesizing succinyl cyclic AMP tyrosine methyl ester (SCAMP-TME) and iodinating the phenolic hydroxyl group of the tyrosine moiety with (125)I.
(4) The resulting radiolabeled 125-ScAMP-TME was subsequently purified by reverse phase chromatography on Seppak C18 cartridge and used as tracers.
(5) We know what you mean, but we couldn't find a red-haired freckled scamp on a piebald horse at short notice so you'll just have to pretend.
(6) At 12 he got his first TV role in Little House on the Prairie and then his big break came when he was cast as a naughty scamp in Silver Spoons.
(7) Purified ScAMP-125I-TME and ScGMP-125I-TME functioned in the respective radioimmunoassays for up to 12 weeks when suspended in a 1:1 (v:v) mixture of n-propanol and 20 mM sodium acetate, pH 6.0.
(8) This antibody binds secretory carrier membrane proteins with apparent Mr 31,000, 33,000 and 35,000 (designated SCAMPs 31, 33, 35).
(9) Using an isocratic buffer for HPLC, mono-ScAMP-125I-TME and mono-ScGMP-125I-TME were eluted from a C18 column at 8.9 and 6.9 min, respectively.
(10) Both the cell fractionation and immunocytochemical localization indicate that GRAMP 100 differs in distribution from GRAMP 92 and 30K SCAMPs, two other components of exocrine granule membranes identified with monoclonal antibodies.
(11) Thirteen-year-old Ryan Ward, a big-eyed scamp with his shoulders up to his ears, tells me earnestly that he only ever really gets in trouble for being late.
(12) The resulting radiolabeled cyclic nucleotide derivatives, ScAMP-125I-TME and ScGMP-125I-TME, were subsequently purified by reverse-phase chromatography on Sep-Pak C18 cartridges (Waters Associates, Milford, MA) and tested as tracers in sensitive radioimmunoassays for cAMP and cGMP, respectively.
(13) Free and antibody-bound (125)I-SCAMP-TME were separated by precipitation of the antibody-bound fraction with a second antibody (goat anti-rabbit gamma globulin).
(14) Interestingly, Jackie Gleason died on exactly the same day Messi was born, suggesting the little scamp is the reincarnation of the American actor.
(15) Carrier free 125I-labeled succinyl cyclic adenosine monophosphate (ScAMP) and succinyl cyclic guanosine monophosphate (ScGMP) tyrosine methyl esters (TME) were purified by reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) or descending paper chromatography.
(16) All had less than 0.005 per cent of the potency of cyclic AMP in inhibiting (125)I-SCAMP-TME binding.
(17) Immunocytochemical staining shows that these SCAMPs are highly concentrated in the apical cytoplasm of exocrine cells.
(18) 2'-O-succinyladenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate tyrosyl methyl ester (ScAMP-TME) and 2'-O-succinylguanosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate tyrosyl methyl ester (ScGMP-TME) were radioiodinated using chloramine T and Na125I.
(19) Displacement of (125)I-SCAMP-TME by unlabeled cyclic AMP when plotted as a semilogarithmic function was linear over a concentration range of 2-100 picomoles.
(20) "Haven't had this confirmed this end yet..." 2.45pm BST "We apologise if anyone was offended by any of the gestures we saw there," says Sky's Man In The Studio after Sky's Man At Everton is assailed by cheeky scamps.