Sample sentences for DIABOLICAL

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Definition

evil; very bad; or cruel and clever (like something of the devil)

More rarely (and then in British English), diabolical can mean very bad — as in "The traffic was diabolical."

As part of her diabolical plan, she spent the first year gaining their trust.

diabolical = evil and clever

She seems to have a diabolic power over him.

diabolic = evil

She was frightened by the diabolical expression on his face.

diabolical = evil

She wanted to learn of the cold calculations and diabolic arts of the worst politicians.

diabolic = evil and clever

Redd's diabolically inventive mind was not to be underestimated;
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

diabolically = evil or cruel

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

diabolical = evil

He smiled, such a soft, smooth, diabolical smile that I knew there was some trick behind his smoothness.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

diabolical = evil (and perhaps clever)

What was the diabolic thing that happened to Mr. Cadaver?
Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons

diabolic = evil

He was a kind of elemental force, a primitive scourge and a raw challenge that summoned diabolic violence from every horse he rode.
Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die

diabolic = devilish

When I'd first started playing Truth, back in my slumber party days, it had always made me nervous. Wes was right in saying it was diabolical: the questions asked were always personal or embarrassing, preferably both.
Sarah Dessen -- The Truth About Forever

diabolical = cruel and clever

All this without that diabolic aid which is surely to him. For it have to yield to the powers that come from, and are, symbolic of good.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

diabolic = evil

The blow was a powerful one; only the diabolical quickness of the Count's leap back saved him.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

diabolical = evil

Besides, he called the Count 'lord and master', and he may want to get out to help him in some diabolical way.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

diabolical = evil

It gave me almost a turn to see again one of the letters which I had seen on the Count's table before I knew of his diabolical plans.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

diabolical = evil (and perhaps clever)

There was a diabolical wickedness in the idea great enough for the Count, and as the last chance I cried out, "Shut the door!"
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

diabolical = evil

The tutor had always viewed Redd's fall into the diabolical as his fault, a failure in her education.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

diabolical = evil or cruel nature

The north and west were surely never meant to be left out of his diabolical scheme, let alone the City itself and the very heart of fashionable London in the south-west and west.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

diabolical = evil

There was something diabolically sweet in her tones, something of the tinkling of glass when struck, which rang through the brains even of us who heard the words addressed to another.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
Her smile was diabolical, and I grinned with her.
Kiera Cass -- The Elite
This was, like, a seventeen on a diabolical scale of one to ten.
James Patterson -- School's Out - Forever

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