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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
  • After approximately fifteen minutes, the diabolical plan bore its fruit, so to speak.  (source)
    diabolical = evil
  • 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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  • Her smile was diabolical, and I grinned with her.  (source)
    diabolical = evil
  • What was the diabolic thing that happened to Mr. Cadaver?  (source)
  • Bren throws back her head and laughs, kind of diabolically.†  (source)
  • As time passed, he cast off his diabolical countenance for a new face …. the face of pure reason.  (source)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • A diabolical fire lit his eyes.  (source)
    diabolical = evil
  • He taught them about the different grasses and herbs that grew in the fields, and made them smell them and taste them, even caress them, until they were able to identify them one by one according to their healing properties: this one to calm the mind, that one to get rid of diabolic influence, this one to make the eyes shine, that one to strengthen the stomach, this to stimulate the flow of blood.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • The tutor had always viewed Redd's fall into the diabolical as his fault, a failure in her education.  (source)
    diabolical = evil or cruel nature
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