Synonyms for diabolical
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1. devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian, mephistopheleanadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   mephistophelian, rascally, hellish, unholy, infernal, fiendish, satanic, roguish, diabolic, devilish, mephistophelean, demonic

   Antonyms:
   good

2. demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholyadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   blasted, mephistophelian, wicked, infernal, damned, diabolic, deuced, beastly, hellish, satanic, blamed, damn, goddam, goddamned, blessed, unhallowed, unholy, blame, god-awful, demonic, darned, goddamn, sinful, fiendish, mephistophelean, devilish

   Antonyms:
   good

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1. diabolicaladjective

   Synonyms:
   devilish, infernal, satanic, impious, atrocious, wicked

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1. List of paraphrases for "diabolical":

   devilish, evil, demonic, diabolic, satanic, unholy

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1. Candace Rondeaux:

   One tends to think that Putin is this diabolical man who controls all the things inside and outside of the Kremlin. That’s kind of true. He definitely has a lot of power over state agencies. He has a lot of power over business enterprises throughout the country and therefore the wealth of the country, but there’s something deeper here. Russia’s oligarchy, its mafia class and its security class have started to fuse to the point where you cannot untangle them from each other and they need each other.

2. A. E. Housman:

   In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

3. Andrei Kolesnikov:

   Putin needs military effectiveness at any cost, there is a negative diabolical charisma in [Prigozhin], and in a sense this charisma can compete with Putin’s. Putin now needs him in this capacity, in this form.

4. Jerry Falwell:

   Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.

5. C. C. Colton:

   There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.