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Meanings of diabolical grin in English

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Usage of diabolical grin in English
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A diabolical grin crossed the face of the Harvester, and he took heart.
The Harvester
2
That face, now ashy white, was distorted into a diabolical grin.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates / Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning...
3
And the afflicted Rhetorician attempted a diabolical grin, but failed signally; and groaned instead.
Hard Cash
4
With a diabolical grin he raised the cat again to swing it over his head.
Paula the Waldensian
5
She saw Mona's face behind the wheel, her lips pulled back in a diabolical grin.
Heartless
6
Grosse indulged himself in his diabolical grin.
Poor Miss Finch
7
Then he bowed most respectfully to her, and retired, exhaling his pent-up venom in a diabolical grin.
A Perilous Secret
8
Upon his face was a diabolical grin.
A Bicycle of Cathay
9
He grinned at me-a slow, diabolical grin.
Salute to Adventurers
10
And the fiend pulled the tuft under his chin, and gave a diabolical grin with his sallow face.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
11
To the priest, with its pointed beard and obliquely set eyes, it seemed to wear a diabolical grin.
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
12
He tried hard to put on an innocent little expression of simplicity; but it looked like a diabolical grin.
A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
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The friar had thrown hack his cowl, and disclosed features of appalling hideousness, lighted up by a diabolical grin.
Windsor Castle
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Besides," the man smiled his diabolical grin again, "there was a reason for going light on the details.
Wild Wings: A Romance of Youth
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Grosse turned his head my way, with his diabolical grin; and signed to me to keep watch on her, in his place.
Poor Miss Finch
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There was a diabolical grin on the face of the Arab, who was about to shout back some defiant taunt when the unexpected happened.
Brewster's Millions
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