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Recent Examples of diabolical And the video, showcasing a diabolical Santa holding Flowers hostage in the desert while gleefully digging his grave. Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024 And, yes, Edmund’s scheme to destroy Edgar and Gloucester’s relationship is diabolical. Jeanette Tran, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024 Anchoring these diabolical lyrical flights is a collection of enticingly busy sound sculptures: trap drums, soul samples, ominous keys, and other melodic embellishments sparkling in the mix like the gilded garments gracing an irate monarch. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024 From its evocative postwar-Paris flashbacks to the diabolical twists that kept fans screaming with each new episode, Interview might be 2024’s most purely pleasurable show. Judy Berman, TIME, 3 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for diabolical 
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Adjective
  • Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, by Clay McLeod Chapman (January 7) $23 $25 now 8% off Chapman’s nightmare road-trip Wake Up and Open Your Eyes is driven by a kicker of a timely concept: a national epidemic of mass demonic possession, caused by prolonged exposure to polarizing media.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
  • But one patient has a strange variation on the condition, where real-world faces appear demonic but those on screens look fine.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Feathers tends to wear cutesy disguises, but comes across as a surprisingly sinister creature who is always observing.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Now the star and filmmaker are trading Wakanda and the boxing ring for an original vision: a Depression-era vampire movie about twin brothers (Jordan plays both) who return to their Deep South hometown, only to find something sinister waiting.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Last season followed the travails of five disparate high schoolers who must band together to survive the outbreak of evil forces from a creepy local home where a teen once died in a fire.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Artists proving no tyranny, no matter how evil or total, can extinguish our desire for self-expression.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • While conceding that standard phishing methods, those that typically require threat actors to craft malicious emails that are delivered to a wide audience, are relatively easy for email platforms to detect and block, that’s not the case with this phishless attack.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Alec Baldwin sues New Mexico, claiming malicious prosecution.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025

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“Diabolical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diabolical. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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