Diabolical

(a.) Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act.

迪克整理

• The Analytical chemist, who is gloomily looking on, has diabolical impulses to suggest 'Wind' and throw up his situation; but represses them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• His superior intelligence and cunning permitted him to invent a thousand diabolical tricks to add to the burdens of Tublat's life. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The watchful, slightly triumphant child was almost diabolical. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Both the drivers again laughed their diabolical laugh. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Invisible insects of diabolical activity swarm in this place. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• There was something quite diabolical in not leaving him a farthing after all. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• My mind, Sir Leicester adds with a generous warmth, has not, as may be easily supposed, recovered its tone since the late diabolical occurrence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I tell thee, the fiend can impose diseases for the very purpose of removing them, in order to bring into credit some diabolical fashion of cure. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He was not diabolical at all. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Never mind me, Mum, returned that diabolical cornchandler. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

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