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Diabolical, Diabolic adj.

Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; befitting hell or satan; devilish; infernal; impious; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act; the diabolical expression on his face; fires lit up a diabolic scene. "Diabolic power." "The diabolical institution."

Synonyms: devilish, mephistophelian, mephistophelean.

Showing a wicked cunning or ingenuity; as, the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen.

Synonyms: devilish, mephistophelian, mephistophelean.

Extremely evil or cruel; atrocious; outrageously wicked; as, diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils; diabolical torturers taking pleasure in their craft.

Synonyms: demonic, fiendish, hellish, infernal, nefarious, satanic.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Diabolic" Quotes from Famous Books

... barbaric and malevolent. And though he posed heavily, he yet had that Satanic fascination which the beautiful of the masculine and the sinister of the devil cannot help having. His battered magnificence of a charro garb fitted well the diabolic character which Jacqueline assigned him. Spurs as bright as dollars jangled on high russet heels. His breeches closed to the flesh like a glove, so that his limbs were as sleek as some glossy forest animal's. The cloth ...

— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

... could see clear through darkness, you should be told in all the truth of them. But we never can know the truth of Sin; for its nature is to deceive alike on the one side the Sinner, on the other the Judge. Diabolic—betraying whether we yield to it, or condemn: Here is Gibbon's sneer—if you care for it; but I gather first from the confused paragraphs which conduct to it, the sentences of praise, less niggard than the Sage of Lausanne usually grants to any ...

— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin

... worst species of that diabolic genus I know of. It is at least a month since I sent them a revise of "Evolution" by no means finished, and from that time to this I have ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley

... was to be asserted, true or false, to blacken the reigning dynasty. . . to find this truly diabolic idea presented to him by a brother of whom he speaks as the partner of all his thoughts, etc., has consumed every spark of favour in which he was held throughout the whole nation, except, perhaps, in those whom party will make deaf and blind for ever to what opposes their own views and schemes. I ...

— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay

... pause in the conversation. Professor Marshall faced the piano again and precipitated himself headlong into the diabolic accelerandos of "The Hall of the Mountain-King." His sister listened with extreme and admiring appreciation of his talent. "Upon my word, Elliott," she said heartily, "under the circumstances it's incredible, but it's true—your touch ...

— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield

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