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- I suppose the village children once played football there, but these days it's the scene of Capricorn's diabolical celebrations: bonfires, brandy, a few shots fired into the air, fireworks, blackened faces — that's their idea of fun.†
- Diabolical celebrations.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(diabolical) evil; very bad; or cruel and clever (like something of the devil)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely (and then in British English), diabolical can mean very bad -- as in "The traffic was diabolical."