sellout (relating to a . . . of one’s soul to the devil) adj.: Mephistophelean
[after the devil in the Faust legend to whom Faust sold his soul]
The unwritten clause [in the contract pursuant to which boxer Sonny Liston obtained a manager], the Mephistophelean clause, the only clause that mattered, stipulated silently that Sonny now belonged, body and soul to [the Mob]. (Nick Tosches, The Devil and Sonny
Liston, Little Brown [2000], p. 108.)
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