diabolism

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Recent Examples of diabolism Whatever their theme — spectral invasion, diabolism, shape-changing — Blackwood expertly builds up an atmosphere of the otherworldly coupled with the spiritually threatening. Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020 In this riposte to #MeToo diabolism, Tarantino finally finds a social context that challenges his audience. Armond White, National Review, 26 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diabolism
Noun
  • With townspeople convinced that the athlete was sucked up by the waves of satanism spreading across the country, a group of outcasts in a band named Dethkrunch decides to lean into the panic, turning the members into targets themselves.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Ben’s found a former member of the troupe who made a video accusing the group of recruiting her for satanism.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 27 June 2024
Noun
  • Less familiar is the part that his American wife, Fanny Stevenson (née Van de Grift), played in juicing up the story’s plot to establish Edward Hyde’s wickedness early on.
    Tobias Grey, airmail.news, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Burkhart’s wickedness is more intimate, more complex, more human.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Unsettling, for sure, and oftentimes evil, but the subjective always seemed to be priority for Lynch.
    Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Salles understands that showing the ways in which life goes on in the face of such evil — or at least attempts to go on — offers a valuable truth into human nature.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Today, traditional notions of villainy have been replaced by complex, sometimes paradoxical, standards of what different groups find acceptable or threatening.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Of course, not all villainy was created equal this year.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The film cares more for Romy’s enveloping sense of self than the depths of her immorality.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
  • What captivated me about the series was its unwillingness to sugarcoat the immorality of man.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • That could still mean 24-72 hours of darkness though, so just make sure you’re prepared.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Brief periods of darkness can also happen when the sun is totally obscured during total solar eclipses, which occur rarely in any particular spot on Earth.
    Ailsa Harvey, Space.com, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • And some will remember the evildoing of those who confected the Trump-Russia hoax, the obstructionist chicanery of the authors of the impeachment trial, and the questionable conduct of the Democratic candidate and his family in dubious financial endeavors in Ukraine and China.
    Conrad Black, National Review, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The greater the barriers to evildoing, the greater the chances of discouraging causal efforts and upping the ante for the determined cyber crooks.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • Non-Burman, non-Buddhist communities are marginalized, oppressed, and subjected to a campaign of violence involving a litany of atrocity crimes.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The State Department, for instance, issued a formal atrocity determination in 2023 that named Ethiopian forces responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
    Sarah Yager, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025

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“Diabolism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diabolism. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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