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- devil is not so black as he is painted
devil is not so black as he is painted
devil is not so black as he is painted
Prov. No one is as bad as people say he is. (Implies that people are saying too many bad things about someone.) I can't believe that actress is as coldhearted as the gossip columns say she is. The devil is not so black as he is painted.