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Synonyms for diabolical
di·a·bol·i·cal
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Princeton's WordNet
devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian, mephistopheleanadjective
showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil
"devilish schemes"; "the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen"; "the diabolical expression on his face"; "a mephistophelian glint in his eye"
Synonyms:
mephistophelian, rascally, hellish, unholy, infernal, fiendish, satanic, roguish, diabolic, devilish, mephistophelean, demonicAntonyms:
gooddemonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholyadjective
extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
"something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces"
Synonyms:
blasted, mephistophelian, wicked, infernal, damned, diabolic, deuced, beastly, hellish, satanic, blamed, damn, goddam, goddamned, blessed, unhallowed, unholy, blame, god-awful, demonic, darned, goddamn, sinful, fiendish, mephistophelean, devilishAntonyms:
good
Dictionary of English Synonymes
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#3009 | evil | |
#5728 | damn | |
#7199 | blame | |
#8459 | wicked | |
#8543 | blessed | |
#15133 | damned | |
#17295 | blamed | |
#24206 | sinful | |
#27390 | blasted | |
#29204 | satanic | |
#33198 | demonic | |
#33382 | infernal | |
#34224 | unholy | |
#36310 | goddamn | |
#47676 | diabolic | |
#53053 | diabolical | |
#54159 | devilish | |
#56071 | darned | |
#59683 | hellish | |
#70510 | beastly | |
#72118 | goddamned | |
#77842 | fiendish | |
#104380 | goddam | |
#147871 | roguish | |
#205005 | rascally | |
#219191 | unhallowed |
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One tends to think that Putin is this diabolical man who controls all the things inside and outside of the Kremlin. That’s kind of true. He definitely has a lot of power over state agencies. He has a lot of power over business enterprises throughout the country and therefore the wealth of the country, but there’s something deeper here. Russia’s oligarchy, its mafia class and its security class have started to fuse to the point where you cannot untangle them from each other and they need each other.
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.
There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
Putin needs military effectiveness at any cost, there is a negative diabolical charisma in [Prigozhin], and in a sense this charisma can compete with Putin’s. Putin now needs him in this capacity, in this form.
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