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Meanings of diabolic in English
Extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell.
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Examples for "infernal"
Examples for "infernal"
1
Kept on sniffing all the time; evidently recently caught an infernal cold.
2
He may have missed it in the infernal howling of the brute.
3
A fearful scene appears in the deepest circle of the infernal abodes.
4
The Ygg-drasill has three roots; two spring from the infernal regions -i.e.
5
AVERNUS, n. The lake by which the ancients entered the infernal regions.
1
You are poor, devilish poor;-thatthe hole in your coat assures me.
2
Their devilish tears are contagious; and I can't cry; it chokes me.
3
His yellow teeth in their blue gums flashed in a devilish smile.
4
The overwhelming sea ran in dark watery mountains crested with devilish fire.
5
Chastity is just as unnatural and devilish as hunger; I hate both.
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Forget about the unholy shenanigans up in Omagh a few weeks ago.
2
And thus Nedna: the unholy union between Ned Flanders and Edna Krabappel.
3
I leave Your Mercies to judge the unholy logic of that process.
4
He was on Cader Sedat, that enchanted island, long since made unholy.
5
The cunning face of the half-breed was lit by an unholy grin.
1
Unfortunately, this diabolical practice is by no means confined to local authorities.
2
The rumors of the diabolical plot reached the ears of Kit Carson.
3
A bird with a most diabolical shrieking note cursed in the shadows.
4
This is what sequestration has become: diabolical descriptions of soldiers mowing lawns.
5
The next has a more diabolical character than any of the preceding.
1
Others in the cutter had noted the incident of the hellish fight.
2
He heard them coming, them with their hellish questions and clicking claws.
3
I passed a hellish night, and the following morning, I told Dad.
4
Qasr-el-Aini was almost a hellish experience, with cars honking the whole time.
5
He knew what a hellish experience it was to end a marriage.
1
Clyde's fiendish mind has not stopped at so simple an abasement, however.
2
This is a place of arcane rules and fiendish levels of bureaucracy.
3
The fiendish manner in which we were to be killed unmanned me.
4
Yes, faint but unmistakable; the sounds filled him with a fiendish joy.
5
The fiendish laughter that just now sounded in my ears proceeded from-
1
We have witnesses who've seen her celebrate satanic rites with the children.
2
I do not remember ever being involved in satanic trauma with Bob.
3
The satanic cunning of the proposal was lost upon his sodden intellect.
4
My father painted a satanic pentagram and green swastikas on my body.
5
A university president intersperses his commencement address with satanic chants and noises.
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The demonic presence in the center of the room changed yet again.
2
And as I held out hope, it lengthened my own, demonic vision.
3
Yes? He gestured, and a demonic secretary appeared in his colossal hand.
4
The clarity of expression; the perversion as well as the demonic purity.
5
Against him the unfathomable power of evil struggles with eternal demonic malice.
1
The face was almost mephistophelian in effect.
2
And Mr. Whistler's Mephistophelian form disappeared into the black of the night.
3
Hare, with his queer, Mephistophelian countenance, was the wickeder of the two.
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His smile held the polished brutality of the most Mephistophelian Mephistopheles.
5
The face was made Mephistophelian, and the front half of him wore scarlet.
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That Mephistophelean spirit of detraction has wide scope in this day.
2
It's a Mephistophelean thing: I can show you power and money if you go with me.
3
He was thus the very man to pour a cool Mephistophelean spray upon Schiller's emotional fervors.
4
Mendoza, with a Mephistophelean smile, bows profoundly.
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When he smiled he revealed a row of very large white teeth, and his smile was correctly Mephistophelean.
Usage of diabolic in English
1
The gulf is the difference between the angelic and the diabolic temperament.
2
For hundreds of years this idea of diabolic possession was steadily developed.
3
When it was finished, he told himself, the portrait would be diabolic.
4
Understand, I do not say that it was not spiritual or diabolic.
5
Divine visions are effected by representations in heaven; diabolic by magic in hell.
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Second, we need to understand that fear is a diabolic force.
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Blind chance, it was rumoured, ruled all things; or perhaps a diabolic intelligence.
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In 1766 Father Sterzinger attacked the very groundwork of the whole diabolic theory.
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These latter were diabolic in the celerity with which they picked out meanings.
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Your printers are the worst species of that diabolic genus I know of.
11
A voice was singing with diabolic satisfaction in the captain's brain:
12
Followed a battery of merciless questions punctuated by the diabolic clank of metal.
13
Yet more fearful to disclose the secret and unloose such a diabolic power.
14
For all I know, the expression of these last may be perfectly diabolic.
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Everybody watched with wonder this play, as of some large and diabolic toy.
16
Her smile, that diabolic expression I so adored, lighted her lips.
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