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diabolical
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Dracula
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- He smiled, such a soft, smooth, diabolical smile that I knew there was some trick behind his smoothness.
p. 57.6 *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!"
p. 58.4diabolical = 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.†
p. 226.3
- 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.
p. 241.6diabolical = evil (and perhaps clever)
- Besides, he called the Count 'lord and master', and he may want to get out to help him in some diabolical way.
p. 265.1diabolical = evil
- 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.
p. 279.1
- The blow was a powerful one; only the diabolical quickness of the Count's leap back saved him.
p. 326.1
- 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.
p. 340.7
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."