William Shawcross

Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to life on earth. Biological weapons are often called the poor man's atomic bomb. Saddam Hussein is the ruler who has for decades been making the most determined and diabolical illegal effort to acquire them.

British Writer

Romesh Ranganathan

Sri Lanka's interpretation of western cuisine is pretty diabolical. Sri Lankan food itself is ace, however, and they bloody love a buffet. Even if you go to a basic-looking cafe, they can knock up four or five different curries for you very quickly.

British Comedian

Pierre Loti

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

French Writer

Vic Reeves

You can be a really terrible actor - I won't mention any names - but, as long as you're good-looking, you can get by with it. Okay, Keanu Reeves. He's a diabolical actor, but he still looks good.

Robyn Hitchcock

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

English Musician

Twinkle Khanna

I just wanted to say that there is so much goodness in the world. We keep looking at the terrible and diabolical things when we open newspapers.

Indian Businesswoman

George Mason

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

American Statesman

Wole Soyinka

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

Nigerian Dramatist

Phillip Adams

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

Australian Writer

A. B. Yehoshua

World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.

Israeli Novelist

Use 'diabolical' to express that something is shockingly bad or unacceptable.

Extreme Negativity

'Diabolical' can intensify the severity of a situation or an action.

Intensity Enhancer

Express strong disapproval or frustration with a situation by calling it 'diabolical'.

Strong Disapproval

Use 'diabolical' when attributing qualities or actions to evil or the Devil.

Associating with Evil

Apply 'diabolical' to describe someone or something with supernatural malevolence.

Supernatural Evil

Sometimes 'diabolical' is used humorously to describe clever but troublesome behavior.

Mischievous Connotation

 Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And diabolical, because you're exploiting the energy of the leader. So then why does anyone lead the race? Because that's their job. Because their team leader may be behind them. So they may be a domestique, one of these servants, to go out the front, to take the brunt of the wind

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 Her devotion to her lover’s abandoned dream bears a strange connection to the diabolical company’s escapades– and carries the story to its surreal climax. Despite its dark humor and complex structure, "The Master and Margarita" is, at its heart,

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 Perhaps this diabolical deceiver has duped you. The world, your perceptions of it, your very body. You can't disprove that they're all just made up, and how could you exist without them? You couldn't! So, you don't. Life is but a dream,

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 or exhort his audience to rule justly and virtuously. Instead, he focused on the question of power– how to acquire it, and how to keep it. And in the decades after it was published, The Prince gained a diabolical reputation.

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 she joyfully organized a whirlwind wedding. When the king returned, he was furious. But he couldn’t execute his daughter’s beloved without reason. So he devised a diabolical trial.

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