- a variation of satanic.
satanical
Example Sentences
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It's too evil a suspicion, too satanical, ever to be brought to light.
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 by Various
He is resisting, fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the dancer is laughing with a satanical air.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
He seemed to me only as an animal in satanical disguise; to have shot him would have given me great relief, for I fairly despaired of ever producing any good effect upon his mind.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
To the priest’s satanical humour the poacher answers, with a sickly smile,— “I do, Father Rogier; perfectly.”
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
The means came unsought for by me, and the only thing that I had to do, was to show myself more perverted and satanical that she was herself.—And so I played the devil.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 by Guy de Maupassant
