How to Use diabolical in a Sentence

diabolical

adjective

• The shadow roared in across the lake, like some diabolical gloom or lethal wall of hail.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2024
• At the age of ten or so, Alicia felt the presence of this diabolical God.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• The opening minutes of Bones and All are a diabolical bait and switch.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 23 Nov. 2022
• In the end, this diabolical plot didn’t come to fruition either.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2018
• The show followed the events that transpired in 2019's Avengers: Endgame after the diabolical Norse god stole the Tesseract.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
• Because that's a pretty diabolical and f---ed up thing to do to your son!
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2021
• That was all there was: a six-year-old image of splintering glass, the blob of milk spreading over the dingy tiles like a diabolical hand.
  — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• Thus begins a diabolical homage to the golden age of Broadway, in which the leads are cursed to find true love in order to escape.
  — Chris Norris, Vulture, 23 June 2021
• But one of the most diabolical methods, right at the top, is asking a designer to do his or her best work all over again.
  — David Netto, ELLE Decor, 15 Oct. 2020
• But the first cannery on the river opened in 1866, and many more followed, fed by diabolical fish wheels that scooped millions of pounds of fish a year from the water.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The crime sets off a chain of events that would expose a diabolical scheme involving Pam.
  — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 11 May 2021
• But plastic, of course, has a diabolical longevity with the potential to choke the world.
  — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
• This kid’s reign wasn’t about control so much as diabolical chaos, as Joffrey’s black little heart drove the realm for a while.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 12 July 2017
• With his length off the tee and crisp short game, Woods could tame even the most diabolical of Augusta National’s holes.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2018
• The cat was fondly named Dia after the airport it was smuggled through and a play on the word diabolical from the viral video, McCloskey said.
  — Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• This is a diabolical way to run a country but a very effective way to stay in power.
  — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2021
• Get ready for crazy trek through this maze, with creepy-looking people in pig masks, diabolical scenes of death and despair, and a whole lot of laughter and fun.
  — Brett Bowman, ajc, 21 Sep. 2017
• On the side of Mount Panorama, it was broken and unpredictable, rusty dirt, grey raggedy scrub grass, and diabolical hills.
  — Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2023
• Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot. $5.
  — The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2017
• Pretty much being diabolical in every step of the way to get here.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 27 May 2022
• But while the two sides didn't agree, each was surprised to find the other not entirely diabolical.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2021
• There’s nothing new about diabolical scammers posing as men of the cloth, of course.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
• Quentin may be one of the most diabolical characters on TV.
  — William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• The parasite's method is diabolical: A fly dive-bombs an ant and quickly inserts an egg in the ant's thorax.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• Well, if that bill was mean, this one is downright diabolical.
  — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 22 June 2017
• Against the current Indeed, Trump in his diabolical shrewdness knows how to build and maintain his own base.
  — David French, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024
• The Palace, by Roman Polanski, takes aim at the diabolical rottenness of the global elite, then tries to laugh at it.
  — Armond White, National Review, 12 July 2024
• Choo gets on firmer ground later, once Young-je abducts Hyun-su and explains his diabolical plan of revenge.
  — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• But Liam’s most diabolical, yet unfortunately hilarious, tweet came when someone asked him how Peggy — mother to Liam and Noel — felt about her two sons finally settling their feud after all these years.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
• Then, as Claire looks into the eyes of a coyote and senses chaotic energies rising within her, the hum gravitates downward, with double-basses and piano slithering across the classically diabolical interval of the tritone.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024