Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.
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Unfortunately, this diabolical practice is by no means confined to local authorities.
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The rumors of the diabolical plot reached the ears of Kit Carson.
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A bird with a most diabolical shrieking note cursed in the shadows.
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This is what sequestration has become: diabolical descriptions of soldiers mowing lawns.
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The next has a more diabolical character than any of the preceding.
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The gulf is the difference between the angelic and the diabolic temperament.
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For hundreds of years this idea of diabolic possession was steadily developed.
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When it was finished, he told himself, the portrait would be diabolic.
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Understand, I do not say that it was not spiritual or diabolic.
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Divine visions are effected by representations in heaven; diabolic by magic in hell.
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The face was almost mephistophelian in effect.
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And Mr. Whistler's Mephistophelian form disappeared into the black of the night.
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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.
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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.
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It's a Mephistophelean thing: I can show you power and money if you go with me.
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He was thus the very man to pour a cool Mephistophelean spray upon Schiller's emotional fervors.
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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.
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You are poor, devilish poor;-thatthe hole in your coat assures me.
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Their devilish tears are contagious; and I can't cry; it chokes me.
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His yellow teeth in their blue gums flashed in a devilish smile.
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The overwhelming sea ran in dark watery mountains crested with devilish fire.
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Chastity is just as unnatural and devilish as hunger; I hate both.
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I shall make devilish work to-night in the larder, I promise you.
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Aye, just in that I saw the devilish cunning of Captain Swope.
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She did not leave you; she was driven away by devilish cruelty.
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She glared at me a second, then gave me a devilish smile.
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And a devilish bad one for the houses of Fitzgerald and Carewe.
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They're devilish hard to capture, harder to train, and dangerous to handle.
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This expedient broke the devilish blackness, and the saint shone out glorious.
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Unfortunately, she can't stop thinking about the devilish gleam in his eyes.
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As I approached Ball Cap's room, a devilish thought occurred to me.
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And the whole house, even the sleeping-rooms, are under that devilish eye.
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The hazard of death afar off had just defeated his devilish obstinacy.
