diabolic

Example Sentences

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He deployed a similar move when, immediately upon being sworn in, he issued an executive order banning instruction in those diabolic “divisive” concepts.

From Washington Post

"The dictatorship has once again surpassed its own evil and diabolic spirit."

From Reuters

Perhaps rattled by the setback, Woods may have made a mental mistake when he chose a 7-iron at the diabolic par-3 12th hole, which was playing into the stiff wind.

From New York Times

"They don't consider the everyday lives of people but put partisan interests before everything and trust in the diabolic and perverse logic of weapons, which is the furthest thing from God's mind."

From Reuters

To crown all, this imaginative anthology even makes room for Arthur Machen’s dizzyingly phantasmagoric “The White People,” and that chilling fairy tale of diabolic temptation, Lucy Clifford’s “The New Mother.”

From Washington Post