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diabolical
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    She wanted to learn of the cold calculations and diabolic arts of the worst politicians.
    diabolic = evil and clever
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    After approximately fifteen minutes, the diabolical plan bore its fruit, so to speak.  (source)
    diabolical = evil
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    Her smile was diabolical, and I grinned with her.  (source)
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    A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.  (source)
    diabolical = evil
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    What was the diabolic thing that happened to Mr. Cadaver?  (source)
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    Bren throws back her head and laughs, kind of diabolically.†  (source)
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    And in groups of kids he's already won over, he whispers his theories about the Admiral's teeth, and his scars, and his diabolical plans for all of them.  (source)
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    He was a kind of elemental force, a primitive scourge and a raw challenge that summoned diabolic violence from every horse he rode.  (source)
    diabolic = devilish
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    But no matter how Spitz circled, Joe whirled around on his heels to face him, mane bristling, ears laid back, lips writhing and snarling, jaws clipping together as fast as he could snap, and eyes diabolically gleaming—the incarnation of belligerent fear.†  (source)
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    A diabolical fire lit his eyes.  (source)
    diabolical = evil
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    There was a diabolic gleam in his eyes as if something amused him greatly.†  (source)
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    Carol sat in the middle of the floor, her eyes blazing at an imaginary cauldron, her lips quivering as she summoned double the toil and stinking trouble, and her hands worked diabolically as she bent over her fire on the schoolroom floor.†  (source)
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    The blow was a powerful one; only the diabolical quickness of the Count's leap back saved him.  (source)
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