diabolic

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I'm sure diabolic minds could come up with a way to do evil with antibiotics if that was all they had to work with.

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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"

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adjective

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"

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Example sentences

I'm sure diabolic minds could come up with a way to do evil with antibiotics if that was all they had to work with.

For me, I can handle the app stuff -- it's the use of my friends to make me act against my own interests that I find truly diabolic.

I hesitate to suggest to try adding doses of sleep to this diabolic regimen, for fear it would be attempted.

I studied at University a proof of Stoker Theorem by Poincaré that fits in one page, but, trust me that it is really diabolic.

I get its value, large project, intangible potential and actual mess, need to abstract over diabolic languages like c++.

Yet people gloat to hear of the endless lines, 40 miles long, of miserable refugees, women and children pouring West, dying on the way. There seem no bowels of mercy or compassion, no imagination, left in this dark diabolic hour.

Some minor corrections because HN thinks editing long posts is diabolic...C1-paragraph3-sent1: Delete "is our"C2-paragraph3-sent2: "seething" should be "serving"C3-paragraph3-sent1: "given" should be "government"C4-parahtaph1-sent2: "th" should be "them"

On a tangentially related point, I attended a Christian private school where we were taught that it stood for Common Error, rather the Era, and that it's was somehow a diabolic plan to subvert Christianity.

One person expressed the effort required to change how we interact with the environment quite well: on the country-level, it's like the US mobilization for WW2. After decades of government intervention being framed as diabolic, and the issue of environment being turned into a partisan issue, I don't see any way this can happen in US at this time.