Diabolical
[daɪə'bɒlɪk(ə)l]
Definition
(a.) Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Devilish, infernal, satanic, impious, atrocious, wicked.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DEVILISH]
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Examples
- The Analytical chemist, who is gloomily looking on, has diabolical impulses to suggest 'Wind' and throw up his situation; but represses them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His superior intelligence and cunning permitted him to invent a thousand diabolical tricks to add to the burdens of Tublat's life. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The watchful, slightly triumphant child was almost diabolical. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Both the drivers again laughed their diabolical laugh. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Invisible insects of diabolical activity swarm in this place. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There was something quite diabolical in not leaving him a farthing after all. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My mind, Sir Leicester adds with a generous warmth, has not, as may be easily supposed, recovered its tone since the late diabolical occurrence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I tell thee, the fiend can impose diseases for the very purpose of removing them, in order to bring into credit some diabolical fashion of cure. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He was not diabolical at all. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Never mind me, Mum, returned that diabolical cornchandler. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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