What's the difference between diabolic and infernal?

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.

Infernal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct.
  • (n.) An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the book, Trierweiler describes infidelity as “an infernal cycle”.
  • (2) It would be easy to imagine that in the years since Wood finally hurled that infernal ring into Mount Doom, he has still been burdened by it, dragging himself around an indifferent movie industry where nobody can see him as anything other than the hairy-footed little hero of a colossally successful movie trilogy.
  • (3) Whether ostensibly conservative, like the Gothic architect Augustus Welsby Pugin, or Marxist, like William Morris, opinion formers in the second half of the 19th century agreed that industry had deformed the UK, that its cities and its architecture were horrifying, that its factories were infernal, and that it should be replaced with a return to older, preferably medieval, certainties.
  • (4) Out of the stadium's sluices flowed hordes of the new classes created by the industrial revolution: workers in overalls, bosses in top hats, arriving to dismantle the rural scene piece by piece, the meadows and the tilled fields making way for an array of vast chimneys emerging from the once fertile earth to reach the height of the stadium rim, their infernal belching smoke replacing the homely cottage hearth and ushering in a world of steam engines and spinning jennys.
  • (5) Do you give in and buy one of those infernal plastic water bottles?
  • (6) There may come a point – quite soon, frankly – when you wonder why you're on this infernal treadmill.
  • (7) Tony Blair 's fans on the right will be disappointed that all he can say about the infernal Sixties is that they were 'a decade of personal liberation' and will be affronted that he attributes to Mrs Thatcher carrying Sixties' individualism into the economic sphere.
  • (8) Visceral video footage that he shot on the day of his own death shows an infernal world of flaming tyres and random firing of automatic weapons.
  • (9) By this point I hadn't slept for three days, had had quite enough of doing a sea lion impression balancing on that infernal ball, and caved in.
  • (10) If fans had an interest in the game they would not be blowing that infernal machine every infernal minute.
  • (11) After compiling an extraordinarily brave double century against India in the tied Test at Chennai in 1985, Australian batsman Dean Jones described what it was like to bat in infernal conditions: “When you’re urinating in your pants and vomiting 15 times, you’ve got massive problems.” When finally dismissed for 210, Jones was taken to hospital on a saline drip.
  • (12) Those who survived that infernal night of interminable gunfire when they yelled: “Don’t shoot, we’re students.
  • (13) Again, these are the occasions when I do not invite interaction with my fellow humans, and I must say that in all the years I’ve been wandering these woods, I have never seen anyone else (if you except winter, deep snow, and the blur and roar of the infernal snowmobiles).
  • (14) The Call's screenplay is by Richard D'Ovidio and feels very much like a fourth instalment in Larry Cohen's "phone trilogy", three infernally propulsive high-concept thrillers based around phones and confinement: Phone Booth, Cellular and Messages Deleted.
  • (15) Vilified by Seleção legends and sections of the media, he stuck to a 4-4-2 plan in which a clogged midfield, anchored by Dunga and Mauro Silva, exploited the pace and skills of an attacking partnership formed by the slick Bebeto and the infernal Romario.
  • (16) He recommends throughout All That Is Solid Melts Into Air that the Faust legend is read dialectically, as a story about the need to have recourse to the "dark side", to the infernal arts of industrialisation and technology.
  • (17) Eventually by greater strength of muscle or by some infernal juggle, the difficulty appears to be overcome, and the shoulders and trunk of a goodly child are delivered.
  • (18) purulence, was regarded as normal and pus was called "Pus bonum and laudabile", which was thought to be the supposition for wound-healing and was the reason for the infernal stench which one could smell.
  • (19) Is it just me who is imagining an infernal alliance of Polish plumbers tooled up with spanners and Wahhabist militants waving ancestral scimitars as they secure the cheese counter at the local Morrison’s with their war traditional cry “Aiee!
  • (20) In a surprisingly candid moment, he complains to a friend of life's "infernal" monotony.