His writing could be diabolically satiric. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a diabolic plot. From Dictionary.com.
The contrast between his smiling face and the 'diabolically' bad news he was bringing to his fellow countrymen was a curious one. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Thornton Blogs] Reference
It was flapping its wings diabolically, exultingly. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
Someone came up with a diabolically brilliant idea. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Because she was so unbelievably, diabolically hilarious. From Wordnik.com. [Lesley M. M. Blume: Chic Nostalgia: Let's Bring Back ...] Reference
It has a teasing quality, it is diabolically fascinating. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
It can be a diabolically detrimental aspect to our security. From Wordnik.com. [First Open Thread-- What's on your mind? Log in and add your comments] Reference
Parliament is scant and "diabolically indolent", says IDASA's. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Mostly, though, Koslow diabolically tugs at our heart-strings. From Wordnik.com. [Back From The Future, In Fast Forward] Reference
Yes, the device was simple, diabolically simple, and adequate. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
There outside the window stood Matters, grinning diabolically. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Slopes] Reference
All very clever, but transparent and diabolically disingenuous. From Wordnik.com. [Newt Gingrich: Republicans Ran "Cheap And Nasty" Campaign Against Kerry In 2004] Reference
The older one, Raymond, is her diabolically forthcoming abductor. From Wordnik.com. ['Night' Makes Carell and Fey's Day] Reference
That's just silly to suggest that it's some diabolically evil plan. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Blasts His Staff Over "Punjab" Hillary Controversy] Reference
Republicans in Ohio and the rest of the country have been diabolically clever. From Wordnik.com. [Ohio Vote Theft, Now and Forever] Reference
He could hardly have thought out a more diabolically clever plot if he had tried. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
They have a God-given or diabolically driven capacity to live with bad conscience. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: John Buffalo and Norman Mailer: What Took Us Into Iraq?] Reference
A complex, cunning, diabolically funny book — it just seems supernatural today. 2. From Wordnik.com. [Augusten Burroughs] Reference
Conditions last night diabolically perfect for coating aircraft which is called rime ice. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2009] Reference
We were diabolically opposed on everything (i.e., they were crazy) but still we discussed stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Anthony DiFalco: A True Friend Shoots You in the Front] Reference
Indeed, the interactive quality of such simulated histories can make them diabolically absorbing. From Wordnik.com. [Multimedia: Simulated Caesars] Reference
For precisely this reason, Mr. Buchan confesses, money "is diabolically hard to comprehend with words.". From Wordnik.com. [No Matter How Poetic, It's Still the Filthy Lucre] Reference
Then a mischievous smile lights up his continence, he leans over me with his long hands gesturing diabolically. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Henry Adams: Barack Hussein Obama: Born To Be Hurt?] Reference
I sometimes ask myself if someone, diabolically, did not plan all this, someone half mad, someone mentally ill. From Wordnik.com. [INTERVIEW WITH MARIA SHRIVER] Reference
As they advanced, they came under a diabolically heavy rifle fire; bullets were raining upon them from all sides. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
I asked hopefully as a dollop of icy rain from the diabolically designed hat brim gushed down the back of my neck. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
As diabolically powerful as these ingredients are separately, they are exponentially more so when working together. From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Junk Food Rat Race] Reference
The sense to do something crazy and diabolically health-hazardous activities that you may regret now, but cherish later?. From Wordnik.com. [fengh Diary Entry] Reference
They speak of tail-less rats, the kinds of creatures often diabolically serving as familiar spirits, or attendant demons. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
Next morning on our going into the yard the unfortunate prisoner who had been punished so diabolically was not to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
Then, in a diabolically clever move, the poor - a category which now roughly coincides with the working class -- stopped shopping. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara Ehrenreich: Smashing Capitalism] Reference
Encrypted files, global conspiracy, diabolically complex forensic tasks: these are the realities of 21st-century counter-terrorism. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
He allows Steno to love him because she is diabolically pretty, notwithstanding her forty years, and then she is, in spite of all, a real noblewoman, which flattered him. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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