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Definition
evil; very bad; or cruel and clever (like something of the devil)
- There was something quite diabolical in not leaving him a farthing after all.Book 4 — Three Love Problems (79% in)
- Plying among his recollections in this way, Mr. Brooke might have got along, easily to himself, and would have come back from the remotest seas without trouble; but a diabolical procedure had been set up by the enemy.Book 5 — The Dead Hand (73% in)
There are no more uses of "diabolical" in Middlemarch.
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