Mephistophelian

English

Adjective

Mephistophelian (comparative more Mephistophelian, superlative most Mephistophelian)

1. Alternative form of Mephistophelean
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 288:

     But, sitting by the opening of Ismail's Muslim Eating Shop, Inder Singh was spooning in soup, tall, thin, saturnine, his beard cut, contrary to the laws of religion, trimmed in a Mephistophelian manner, his turban neat and starched[.]

   • 1989, Howard Aiken, “Early Inventors”, in Robert Slater, editor, Portraits in Silicon, The MIT Press, →ISBN:

     And you can see from the Spockian ears and the raised eyebrows, he had a positive Mephistophelian look.