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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.
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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
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
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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
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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
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Or watch Margaret Hamilton terrorize Dorothy before getting the backstory behind her wickedness.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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There is killing and hatred and strife on every level and spiritual wickedness in high places.—
Bea L. Hines,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2025
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In a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France, a very special child is born, unleashing a secret war between extraterrestrial forces of good and evil.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
7 Mar. 2025
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America’s stable vision of the world relied on the belief that good and evil are clearly delineated—a belief that was easier to maintain in the absence of complicating information.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
The New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2025
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Or the constitutional dystopia in which we are now caught, beside which even the ugliest onscreen villainy pales into insignificance?—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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Some of the most compelling performances of Hartnett’s career, though, dip more fully into villainy.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 Aug. 2024
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Segregationists resisted integration by calling it a threat, arguing that interracial relationships would foster immorality.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
8 Feb. 2025
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Just as important, many have come to understand that the outside world hardly resembles the wasteland of deprivation, immorality, and criminality that official propaganda depicts.—
Jieun Baek,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Nov. 2016
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This means that during daylight saving time, many young people get up and travel to school in pitch darkness.—
Beth Ann Malow,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2025
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The field is increasingly engulfed in darkness, and—with the score tied—the players must choose between the reckless absurdity of playing a night game without lights and the eternal purgatory of leaving the final contest unresolved.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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Intentionally or not, these gestures and statements normalize racial hatred, which is the prologue to the kind of racial violence that led to some of humanity’s worst atrocities.—
Andres Oppenheimer,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2025
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These are war crimes, and no amount of justification in the name of previous atrocities can change that reality.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Diabolism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diabolism. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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