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Line 2: Dictionaries generally strive to be dry, informative, accurate and serious reference works. [[Well, This Is Not That Trope\|But not these.]] Definitions in a Devil's Dictionary [[Satire\|satirize]] either people who use terms described in it, or the terms' referents themselves. They feature many [[Take That\|jabs]], anecdotes, sometimes even [[Perfectly Cromulent Word\|made-up words]] or [[Neologism\|neologisms]], spiced with an occasional [[~~Pun~~A Worldwide Punomenon\|pun]]. They point out [[Deconstruction\|how a term tends to be used in practice, as opposed to how it's supposed to be used]]. Needless to say, a Devil's Dictionary tends to lie on the cynical side of the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]. Named after Amrose Bierce's ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]'', which is the [[Trope Codifier]] of this genre. Many examples of it pay [[Homage]] to it ([[Self-Demonstrating Article\|read: they shamelessly latch onto its popularity]]) by naming themselves ''The Devil's Dictionary of...''. Line 12: * ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]'', [[Trope Namer\|of course]]. * ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090205172430/http://philosophicallexicon.com/ The Philosophical Lexicon]''. * ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20151025070616/http://www.devilsdictionaries.com/ The Devil's Dictionary of Economics and Finance]''. == Web Original ==