The diabolic acts during the world wars caused a lot of casualties to soldiers and civilians alike. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : a diabolic plot. From Dictionary.com.
But to accomplish this work, which we may also call diabolic, isn't an androgynous genius necessary?. From Wordnik.com. [The Thirteen] Reference
My spell checker suggested this should be spelled "diabolic". From Wordnik.com. [Discourse.net: A Note for my 1L Torts Class] Reference
When we go to war, we have to have an evil enemy, a kind of diabolic enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Under God: Religion and American Politics] Reference
The most diabolic person in this country is O.J. Simpson. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 9, 2007] Reference
Nay, said a fourth, she was dead from her own diabolic devices. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
Were they Trolls forging diabolic enginery, or Gypsies of Yankeedom?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
We face a ruthless single minded diabolic ideology on a par with Nazism. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
It had the diabolic eyes of the Moro set in a shaven ecclesiastical face. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
Troops of baffled demons fled at their approach howling in diabolic despair. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
But possibly after a session with Baguley and his diabolic machine they were. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind to Murder]
But my imagination had already discerned my diabolic opponent's likely strategy. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
Once more Struan was awed by the subtlety and diabolic cunning of a Chinese mind. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
If we follow his orders, have no doubt that he will attain his diabolic objectives. From Wordnik.com. [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference
The whole question that lies at bottom is whether this world is divine or diabolic. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
Followed a battery of merciless questions punctuated by the diabolic clank of metal. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
Time and space will not permit the enumeration of such diabolic discriminatory laws. From Wordnik.com. ["Special Presidential Message"] Reference
German people led by their diabolic Hohenzollern reigning family and war bureaucracy. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
It would seem, almost, as if a diabolic providence had prepared them for this very result. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Then for centuries the cat was looked upon as a diabolic creature, fit company for witches. From Wordnik.com. [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference
My soul shrank as I listened; only a Chinese female could plot with such cruel, diabolic cunning. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the Dragon]
I had no idea of the diabolic cleverness of sending a heavily-fueled airplane into a major building. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2002] Reference
The problem of the diabolic nature, of the possibility of a "fallen spirit," is not for man to solve. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
It is now to be the diabolic standard, and he goes with it towards the door of his house, pensive and sad. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
It was becoming obvious to me that there had been some diabolic plot and these people were involved in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Reluctant Queen]
Through its brutal response, the apartheid regime hoped to suppress all resistance to its diabolic schemes. From Wordnik.com. [STATEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS, NELSON MANDELA, ON THE 17TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1976 STUDENTS UPRISING] Reference
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