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diabolical

[dahy-uh-bol-i-kuhl] / ˌdaɪ əˈbɒl ɪ kəl /


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That’s when UConn coach Dan Hurley dialed up “Twelve On,” a diabolical full-court trap that would make or break his entire season.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

The promise remains dazzling and deliciously diabolical enough for adherents to forget that deals with the devil always come with a hidden, inescapable price tag.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025

It’s less stupid, for starters, and more diabolical.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

Maverick: After all these years we have finally found a team who where so diabolical at taking penalties that we managed to win one.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2025

Always didactic, he went into a learned exposition of the diabolical properties of cinnabar, but Úrsula paid no attention to him, although she took the children off to pray.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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