- a variation of diabolical.
diabolic
Example Sentences
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Thus far, it has been the only diabolic flicker he’s displayed.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2026
Sheku Tarawallie, president of Sierra Leone's Council of Traditional Healers, is adamant that "diabolic" juju men like Kanu are giving healers a bad name.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were diabolic and diabolical.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
To crown all, this imaginative anthology even makes room for Arthur Machen’s dizzyingly phantasmagoric “The White People,” and that chilling fairy tale of diabolic temptation, Lucy Clifford’s “The New Mother.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2021
Waking from the dream, Tartini attempted to recollect the fugitive motives of this diabolic sonata, but could not — and wrote instead, from those fragments, his sonata, infamous for its difficulty, called “The Devil’s Trill.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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