satanical

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It's too evil a suspicion, too satanical, ever to be brought to light.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 by Various

He is resisting, fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the dancer is laughing with a satanical air.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

The children are scolded out of superficial vanities, and their place is occupied by a satanical sort of pride—the pride of possessing correct information.

From The Altar Fire by Benson, Arthur Christopher

To the priest’s satanical humour the poacher answers, with a sickly smile,— “I do, Father Rogier; perfectly.”

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne

The means came unsought for by me, and the only thing that I had to do, was to show myself more perverted and satanical that she was herself.—And so I played the devil.

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 by Maupassant, Guy de