POOR DEVIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poor devil mean? 

• POOR DEVIL (noun)
  The noun POOR DEVIL has 1 sense:

1. someone you feel sorry for

  Familiarity information: POOR DEVIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POOR DEVIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone you feel sorry for

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

poor devil; wretch

Hypernyms ("poor devil" is a kind of...):

victim (an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance)

 Context examples 

Now look here, Mr. Scott, give the poor devil a fightin' chance.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Poor devil, how could I be angry when I saw him lying in such a plight before me?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We should be rich men if we had £ 1000 for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When Quincey saw the attitude and state of the patient, and noted the horrible pool on the floor, he said softly:—"My God! what has happened to him? Poor, poor devil!"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“You poor devil,” said John Thornton, and Buck licked his hand.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The poor devil has certainly got himself into very deep water, and it’s a question whether we shall ever be able to get him ashore.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have to go up to town in any case, for there is a poor devil of an East India Company’s officer who has written to me in his distress.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Besides, methinks if I were le bon Dieu, it would bring me little joy to see a poor devil cutting the flesh off his bones; and I should think that he had but a small opinion of me, that he should hope to please me by such provost-marshal work.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You poor devil," he said gently, rubbing White Fang's ears and tapping his spine.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You’ll go off and he, poor devil, will have to stand the racket, and lucky if he gets off with his life.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)