diabolic
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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
Perhaps rattled by the setback, Woods may have made a mental mistake when he chose a 7-iron at the diabolic par-3 12th hole, which was playing into the stiff wind.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
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
He seemed positively diabolic in his enjoyment of our discomfort.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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