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the dick·ens

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  1. the dickensadverb

    The devil.

    She can go to the dickens for what she said.

  2. the dickensadverb

    Used as an intensifier.

    Why the dickens did he do that?

  3. Etymology: See dickens.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of the dickens in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of the dickens in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of the dickens in a Sentence

  1. Oliver North:

    The problem that we've got is, we're trying like the dickens to treat the symptom without treating the disease, and the disease in this case isn't the Second Amendment ; the disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence, they've been drugged in many cases. Nearly all of these perpetrators are male, and they're young teenagers in most cases, and they've come through a culture where violence is commonplace.

  2. Ali Carter:

    I'm chief of staff to Andre Dickens, oK, well you still have a warrant for your arrest.

  3. John Berger:

    Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

  4. Archibald MacLeish:

    The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

  5. Dimitrios Pagourtzis:

    We are trying like the dickens to treat the symptoms, not the disease, the disease isn’t the Second Amendment.

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