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/dˌaɪəbˈɑlɪkəl/ Listen

adjective

Diabolical, Diabolic adj.

Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; befitting hell or satan; devilish; infernal; impious; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act; the diabolical expression on his face; fires lit up a diabolic scene. "Diabolic power." "The diabolical institution."

Synonyms: devilish, mephistophelian, mephistophelean.

Showing a wicked cunning or ingenuity; as, the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen.

Synonyms: devilish, mephistophelian, mephistophelean.

Extremely evil or cruel; atrocious; outrageously wicked; as, diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils; diabolical torturers taking pleasure in their craft.

Synonyms: demonic, fiendish, hellish, infernal, nefarious, satanic.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Diabolical" Quotes from Famous Books

... cannot but feel indignant that so generous a prince, whose first maxim was, that true magnanimity consisted in the forgiveness of injuries, and pusillanimity in the prosecution of revenge, should owe his death to the diabolical machinations of a filthy friar?" Yet, so it was; the circumstances ...

— Paris As It Was and As It Is • Francis W. Blagdon

... age, as gnarled and sinewy as the stem of an old grape-vine. At the first glance one would not have taken him for a scoundrel. His manner was humble, and even gentle; but the restlessness of his eye and the expression of his thin lips betrayed diabolical cunning and ...

— The Honor of the Name • Emile Gaboriau

... Next the daroga was instructed to go and find Erik. He brought him to Persia, where for some months Erik's will was law. He was guilty of not a few horrors, for he seemed not to know the difference between good and evil. He took part calmly in a number of political assassinations; and he turned his diabolical inventive powers against the Emir of Afghanistan, who was at war with the Persian empire. The Shah took a ...

— The Phantom of the Opera • Gaston Leroux

... placed at each end of the path in an upright position, so as to conceal it from the eyes of the passer. For a long time the mulatto reflected upon the conversation he had heard, and considered the means of defeating the diabolical plot. Against a band of ruffians, such as Vernon would enlist for the service, he could not contend single-handed. To remove his mistress from the island, while Henry Carroll lay helpless there, would not be an acceptable proposition to ...

— Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue • Warren T. Ashton

... about 3, the morning of September 2nd. It was quite dark and bitterly cold. Very sleepily indeed we rode along an exiguous path by the side of the cobbles. The sun had risen, but it was still cold when we rattled into that diabolical city of ...

— Adventures of a Despatch Rider • W. H. L. Watson

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