Devil and Loser

Devil

Devil noun - A mean, evil, or unprincipled person.

Usage example: he's a devil to everyone he does business with

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Loser and devil are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Loser" instead a noun "Devil".

Loser noun - Something that has failed.

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Devil and loser are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Devil" instead a noun "Loser".

Nearby Words: lose, losing

old	old devil	old loser
good	good devil	good loser
typical	typical devil	typical loser
single	single devil	single loser
Other adjectives: annoying, stupid, poor, real, black, former, classic, titular, local, resident.

Chichikov from Dead Souls definitely invokes this with the whole "buying people's 'souls'" thing and he's a lot like the "devil as small time bureaucrat / loser" portrayal in other works.

Source: The Devil Is a Loser
In most stories, the protagonists will get away with swindling the devil without consequences and souls intact, and in the few where they do suffer some consequences, they tend to result either from character flaws on the part of the protagonists or the devil being a sore loser.

Source: The Devil Is a Loser
He's certainly a loser in the Treehouse of Horror segment "The Devil and Homer Simpson", where his own Jury of the Damned rules against him after he's outwitted by Marge.

Source: The Devil Is a Loser

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