diabolical

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The sequel, Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping, was launched at the end of last year and was Australia's number one "best-selling children's book" according to its publisher Allen & Unwin.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2026

Diabolical and heartless, Weyman’s Father Antoine is particularly charismatic and seemingly unstoppable, the very stuff of melodrama.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2021

Trese follows the titular Alexandra Trese, a Manilla resident who owns a club called Diabolical, but more interestingly, is also a consulting detective of sorts.

From The Verge • Jul. 4, 2021

Cotton Mather, a leading Puritan theologian in a society where the church exercised enormous power and influence, detected a "Diabolical Compact" in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2020

And have not men been seen to do things which are above humane Strength, that no man living could do without Diabolical Assistances?

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton