All 4 Uses of
diabolical
in
Arrowsmith
- But tonight, in detestation of such literary playboys as Brumfit, he exalted Gottlieb's long, lonely, failure-burdened effort to synthesize antitoxin, and his diabolic pleasure in disproving his own contentions as he would those of Ehrlich or Sir Almroth Wright.†
Chpt 2
- Like a priest of diabolic mysteries, he drew out the blackened blood with a pipette.†
Chpt 4 *
- There may have been in the shadowy heart of Max Gottlieb a diabolic insensibility to divine pity, to suffering humankind; there may have been mere resentment of the doctors who considered his science of value only as it was handy to advertising their business of healing; there may have been the obscure and passionate and unscrupulous demand of genius for privacy.†
Chpt 32
- The gas crept up through it, colorless, diabolic, and suddenly a buzzard circling above the roof tilted forward, fell slantwise, and lay dead among the watchers.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(diabolical) evil; very bad; or cruel and clever (like something of the devil)