demonical

In other words, they provide for a legitimizing of sadistic and demonical impulses of which, under normal circumstances they might be ashamed.

In Cal’s Olympic gold medal race in Amsterdam in 1928, Don Blessing put on what the New York Times called “one of the greatest performances of demonical howling ever heard on a terrestrial planet But such language and what a vocabulary! One closed one’s eyes and waited for the crack of a final cruel whip across the backs of the galley slaves.”

Bent on claiming Tom’s soul, Shadow offers to show him the ways of the world in London, and Mr. Burdette, singing with earthy power and flair, was slyly demonical.

This force of love may look demonical.

There is only one word for such a man," thundered one critic, ". . . that word is demonical.