23 examples of diabolically in sentences

He grinned diabolically as he led me to the little house and opened the door.

Fate ordained that this question was answered by a man who knew that Cartwright was Carteret; and so, at last, the unhappy father realised how diabolically he had been hoaxed.

The will itself is the most diabolically exasperating document that was ever produced by the perverted ingenuity of a wrong-headed man.

The police in all countries know how many cases occur which can be explained only on that theory, and how diabolically ingenious madmen are in covering their tracks.

Had he been surrounded by loving disciples, like Latimer at the burning pile, he might have summoned more strength; but alone, in a dark inquisitorial prison, subjected to increasing torture among bitter foes, he did not fully defend his visions and prophecies; and then his extorted confessions were diabolically altered.

Nothing perhaps on our earth has ever been done more diabolically than under the forms of ecclesiastical law; nothing can be more atrocious than the hypocrisies and acts of inquisitors.

I caught one word; but he looked so diabolically pleased with himself that it didn't really need that to stir me into action.

The power of a great conviction, the simplicity of great art, the vital spiritual message of a soul that had found itselfall this, and more, were in the chords, and yet somehow the music was what can only be described as impureatrociously and diabolically impure.

From Snow Hill I deliberately was marching down, with noble Holborn before me, framing in mental cogitation a map of the dear London in prospect, thinking to traverse Wardour-street, &c., when diabolically I was interrupted by Heigh-ho! Little Barrow!

'I believe I should have suffered less if it had been diabolically rough.

Did he harrow up his hearers with a burst from "Othello" or a deep-sea groan from "Hamlet," and then create a revulsion of feeling by somersaulting over the centre-fire of the circle and standing on his head before it, grinning diabolically at the incensed pot?

He could hardly have thought out a more diabolically clever plot if he had tried.

The construction of this little clever monster is diabolically French.

Of course, for one thing, there is a vast difference between the communal kitchens of which I spoke and the communal meal (monstrum horrendum, informe) which the darker and wilder mind of my correspondent diabolically calls up.

Dear me, how diabolically those wretches lied to the Marquess.

When I am most angry, a diabolically aggravating spirit seems to possess me.

"Afterward I found out that my husband, equipped with his legal knowledge, had set all manner of traps for me, had bribed my maid, and diabolically managed to twist the most innocent visits of the boys of the old crowd to our home to his own evil meanings.

"The fact is," he continued, "that love is a very rare thing, nowadays, and is so very generally an abominable sham that I have often amused myself by diabolically devising plans for its destruction.

Everybody's so diabolically clever nowadays.

They are diabolically cruel to animals too, and they seem to me as a rule hardly to know the difference between truth and falsehood.

"When you laugh like that, I always know some diabolically cynical idea is floating in your head, and it is not good for you.

Could anything be more diabolically attractive?

There burned the light, diabolically like a signal fire on the peak, where no fire should be.

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