diabolically

Example Sentences

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Clearly they had no further need for the humans who had turned over their yard, their basement and two years of their lives to these charming but diabolically equipped aquatic engineers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Now consider China, a country that many Americans appear to think is almost diabolically efficient.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2023

It’s a diabolically clever entrapment that Columbo pulls off, and it’s very satisfying.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

Poor old Rhys Ifans is given nothing to do but plot diabolically — and morosely — as the King’s Hand Otto Hightower,

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022

There was something diabolically sweet in her tones—something of the tingling of glass when struck—which rang through the brains even of us who heard the words addressed to another.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker