black magic

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noun
  1. magic used for evil purposes; witchcraft; sorcery (contrasted with white magic).

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How to use black magic in a sentence

  • The hypnotist has shown the vanity and Blake the inutility of willing trifles, and black magic its futility.

  • This charge of black magic recurs all through the history of Europe from the earliest times.

  • Having mastered that coal-stove principle, they are going back to their native hills with black magic up their sleeves.

    The Iron Puddler | James J. Davis
  • It savoured of the conjuring trick if not of sheer black magic.

    Fifty Years of Golf | Horace G. Hutchinson

British Dictionary definitions for black magic

black magic

noun
  1. magic used for evil purposes by invoking the power of the devil

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