(a.) Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.
(a.) Extreme; excessive.
Example Sentences:
(1) He warned of the “devilish” intentions of the US, even as he reaffirmed his support for Iran’s negotiating team.
(2) She says she saw the girls' "devilish twitching" and "committing impudences".
(3) eneath the jokes, the headline fodder, the superstitions and devilish charm, there is another side to Cellino.
(4) Robbie Brady breezed past the right-back Emre Can to send a devilish cross into the six-yard box and Mignolet punched the ball out as far as Jake Livermore.
(5) Yet there the four sat piously deploring "complexity" in a tax system that keeps adding volumes to the code just to chase down their devilish loopholes.
(6) We are doing all we can to bring Peter Greste home.” The prosecution closed its case in Cairo on Thursday, accusing the three journalists of making a “devilish pact” with the Muslim Brotherhood, who were ousted from power by the Egyptian military in July 2013.
(7) Perhaps this devilish bait-and-switch enables us to understand better what political talk of “aspirations” for the masses really mean.
(8) Since then, in truth it has been a bit of a slog with consistency devilishly hard to come by.
(9) Their debut full-length, Hell on Heels , found them giving voice to third-generation bartenders, drug-addicted housewives and devilish gold-diggers.
(10) And you sense that if you put so much as a full stop in the wrong place, some devilish voice from hell will exclaim ' Muahaha....we got you ! '
(11) 3.08pm BST 8 min: This time City work the ball cleverly on the left, Kolarov playing a neat one-two with Toure and fizzing a devilish low ball into the six-yard box.
(12) Recorded at the new Paisley Park studio he had built in 1986 on the outskirts of Minneapolis, Sign was devilishly eclectic, travelling from the doom-saying title track - an unsettling mix of hypnotic electro rhythm, bluesy guitar and fragile, semi-rapped lyric - to the Philly rhapsody of 'Adore' via the frantic power pop of 'I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man'.
(13) But that was the least of the pain inflicted on Brunt by Zaha, whose speed and devilish dribbling tormented the left-back from start to finish.
(14) Devilishly cunning new legislation in 19 key US states, designed to place obstacles between voters and the ballot boxes most likely to affect those who vote Democrat, may eventually swing it for the Republicans.
(15) Stylish, devilishly expensive – the perfect bag in which to carry around statistics about third world debt.
(16) Two years later came The Destroying Angel – a much darker piece, based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe; a nightmarish series of encounters for a young seminarian with a devilish character and magic mushrooms.
(17) What if by some devilish miracle the great 1920s iconoclast H.L.
(18) Like every other globally traded commodity foodstuff, quinoa is devilishly complicated and prone to tragedy.
(19) Howard had to leave his line to block Dembélé early on, after Sylvain Distin's loose back pass and Rose's run and devilish cross nearly found Adebayor.
(20) What also gets overlooked sometimes is the devilish way they work to get the ball back when they lose it.
Diabolic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Diabolical
Example Sentences:
(1) "I doubt if there are any rational people to whom the word 'fuck' would be particularly diabolical, revolting or totally forbidden," Tynan said loftily, in the middle of a discussion about how sex could be represented on stage.
(2) The problem with the laws used to prosecute Dieudonné, Faurisson, Gollnisch and their diabolical kind is that it can, in a peculiar way, diminish our ability to argue against them.
(3) In a fierce attack Sunderland’s manager described the scheduling as “diabolical” and said the league was “destroying” the game.
(4) The launch of the new land trust follows a 10-year campaign by Citizens UK, the national charity for community organising.Smith said: "The London housing market is in a diabolical state and needs a radical change – and this is the most radical thing out there.
(5) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.
(6) The established stable of political characters includes McKinnon’s diabolically hilarious Hillary Clinton , and Jay Pharoah’s precise, if unremarkable, take on Obama .
(7) Better still, he was out of the country for the entire year of the Iraq invasion, so he could at last allow his party to move on from Tony Blair's most diabolical decision, by making a belated confession to the catastrophe, which he could do without personal blushes.
(8) Abbott pointedly said that in 2009 – when he ousted Turnbull as Liberal leader – the Coalition was in “absolutely diabolical difficulty because we were making weak compromises with a bad government”.
(9) Comparing politically enthused democratic socialists to murderous paramilitaries employed by a genocidal totalitarian regime that slaughtered leftists: well, frankly, it’s diabolical.
(10) He was either a brilliant or a diabolical bandit – or possibly both – who captured territory throughout the Arabian peninsula and who in 1932 declared the establishment of Saudi Arabia, a nation named after a family.
(11) People fleeing from Syria are fleeing from the most diabolical circumstances.” The foreign minister said Australia was working with the UN refugee agency to ascertain asylum claims.
(12) The diabolical behavior, conversion symptoms, and diffuse violence and cruelty of a young woman responded remarkably to treatment with lithium.
(13) The ornate Hindu cave-temples at Ellora were "the most wonderful thing" he had seen in India, though "too diabolic to be beautiful".
(14) House of Cards, his second commissioned drama series whose first season was released in February, even better demonstrates Sarandos's diabolical genius (if that is what it is).
(15) "I fully support the money spent on the Olympic Stadium, but for it to be only used for a month before being demolished is a diabolical waste of public money."
(16) History suggests that there is no diabolical plot to keep women out.
(17) They went from a braying sort of swagger: ‘We’ve got this day won and the government’s in diabolical trouble’ to, like, ‘Oh shit, is that the time?
(18) The HIV and tuberculous infections therefore constitute a kind of "diabolical duo", the degree of endemia of one of these two diseases being influenced by the other and reciprocally.
(19) They described it as a "diabolic" act of "extreme brutality" and stressed what they said was a premeditated plan to murder the victim and a male friend by running them over after they were dumped, apparently unconscious, from the bus in which they had been assaulted.
(20) They’re likely to continue to support the Republicans so long as they believe that Democrats represent a diabolical threat to the nation.