Diabolic: alternatives and connections

Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious…

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Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious…

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An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon.

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An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon.

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Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac.

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Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.

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Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wi…

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Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.

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Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.

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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, th…

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Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, "a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;" devilish; crafty.

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Alt. of Satanical

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Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane; wicked; impious.

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