diabolically

English

Etymology

diabolical +‎ -ly

Adverb

diabolically (comparative more diabolically, superlative most diabolically)

In a diabolical manner.
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Foreigner At Home”, in Memories and Portraits, New York: Charles Scribner, page 1:
  Two recent books, one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations.

Related terms

Translations

In a diabolical manner

Catalan: diabòlicament (ca)
Czech: ďábelsky (cs)
Danish: djævelsk
Finnish: pirullisesti (fi), paholaismaisesti
French: diaboliquement (fr)
Georgian: ეშმაკისებრ (ešmaḳisebr)
German: diabolisch (de)
Greek: διαβολικά (el) (diavoliká)
Ido: diablatre (io)
Italian: diabolicamente (it)
Latvian: velnišķi, velnišķīgi
Spanish: diabólicamente

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