diabolical
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Product designers are coming up with novel ways to rouse deep sleepers that border on diabolical, including clocks that deliver 300-volt electric shocks and donate snoozers’ money to charity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
She said: "We've seen the worst care homes - diabolical homes - and they're not inspected for two or three years."
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025
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
“You needed her to be diabolical in order to show what really was happening there,” says Davidtz.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 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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