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Diabolically

adverb
1.
As a devil; in an evil manner.  Synonyms: devilishly, fiendishly.






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"Diabolically" Quotes from Famous Books



... in a good humor. He had not been excited for years. The man was alive. I've said he was like a Spaniard in that he could be diabolical without getting red in the face. Diabolically devious and strategic! Before he resumed he blew three mouthfuls of cigar smoke out into the moonlight, where they burst from the shadow under the roof like mute cannon shots, round and silvery. Beneath them, from the step, Signet's eyes were fixed upon the trader's face, dry, rapt, ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... Mr. Campbell has always been distinguished. Another notable essay or review is "English History," by Henry Clapham McGavack. Mr. McGavack here ably employs his keen analysis and lucid style in dissecting Prof. Meyer's absurdly biased but diabolically clever ...
— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft

... get my own way when I want to do a kindness, and Stirn always gets his when he insists on something diabolically brutal ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... have made a worse beginning had he pondered the matter long and diabolically. Blenham had been right and Steve had had ample time to admit the fact utterly and completely; now there was a ringing note in his voice, the effect of which, falling upon his grandfather's ears, might be likened with no ...
— Man to Man • Jackson Gregory

... rays, at any chance moment when they do reach the steamy swamp on which it is built or the waters of the lead—coloured, land—locked cove that constitutes the harbour, immediately exhale the thick sickly moisture, in clouds of sluggish white vapours, smelling diabolically of decayed vegetables, and slime, and mud. I will venture a remark that will be found, I am persuaded, pretty near the truth, that there were twenty carrion crows to be seen in the streets for every inhabitant—the ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... felt as though he were being tantalized. It was almost the same feeling he remembered having in boyish dreams that came during examination time, when the answers to dream questions flashed in his mind for a moment then diabolically faded before he got them ...
— Where the Sun Swings North • Barrett Willoughby

... armchair waiting for Adolphe. One, I would wager, comes from Eugene Delacroix's Faust which I have on my table. Mephistopheles speaks, that terrible aide who guides the swords so dexterously. He leaves the engraving, and places himself diabolically before me, grinning through the hole which the great artist has placed under his nose, and gazing at me with that eye whence fall rubies, diamonds, carriages, jewels, laces, silks, and a thousand luxuries to feed the burning ...
— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac

... the most diabolically dangerous proposal to be made in this Hall in the last six centuries!" old Admiral Gaklar shouted. "This is a proposal to concentrate all the armed force of the Empire in the hands of one man. Who can say what unscrupulous use might ...
— Ministry of Disturbance • Henry Beam Piper

... wearisome from the constant strain after minute dissection; declaring it further to be "in every sense of the word a mischievous book." "Blackwood," less unfriendly, surrendered itself to the beauty of the writing; "satire so studied, so polished, so remorseless, and withal so diabolically entertaining, that we know not where in modern literature to seek such ...
— Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake • Rev. W. Tuckwell

... looked round—Basavriuk! Ugh, what a face! His hair was like a brush, his eyes like those of a bull. "I know what you lack: here it is." Then he jingled a leather purse which hung from his girdle, and smiled diabolically. Petro shuddered. "He, he, he! yes, how it shines!" he roared, shaking out ducats into his hand: "he, he, he! and how it jingles! And I only ask one thing for a whole pile of such shiners."— "It is the Evil One!" exclaimed ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian • Various

... red tights, cape, and doublet, snatched his red cap with the cock's feather in it off his head, and bowed diabolically: ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler

... by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, ...
— Memories and Portraits • Robert Louis Stevenson

... the Trouble of before; in short, he acts the GRAND MANNER as the Architects call it (I don't know whether our Free-Masons may understand the Word) and therefore I may hereafter explain it, as it is to be Diabolically as ...
— The History of the Devil - As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts • Daniel Defoe

... the despair of her circle. Why, argued the other birds, why fly in the face of luck? To be sure, she was still young, still beautiful, with that sort of metallic beauty which reminded Ambroise of some priceless bronze blackened in the sun. She was meagre, diabolically graceful, dark, with huge saucer-like eyes that greedily drank in her surroundings. But her lashes were long, and she could veil her glance so that her brilliant face looked as if the shutters had been closed on her soul. Across her brows a bar of blue-black marked the passage of her eyebrows—which ...
— Visionaries • James Huneker



Words linked to "Diabolically" :   fiendishly, diabolic, devilishly



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