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satanic
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN mill ▪ Most people's historical picture of industry consists of the concept of the ancient production line, the dark satanic mills and so on. ▪ Yet despite Charles Dickens etal., workhouses were not all the dark ...
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adj. 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"; ...
Usage examples of satanic.
Some were ecoterrorists, others were blatantly Satanic, and still others were violently racist.
All these big boom growths of these satanic churches and the Jim Jones thing, the Bandido motorcycle gangs, the other motorcycle gangs, there are kids out there and they are lonely and they are hurting and they are turning toward something that will give them security.
His outlandish hair, his satanic earring, and his smartass sweatshirt afforded so many opportunities to zing me, that Hobart finally let the kid off with a ninety-day suspended and a two-fifty fine.
Story is elderly attorney shoots Taos Satanic cult leader during wild midnight ride.
He was aware that the sun shone brightly, the sky was blue, but the big swell of the apartment house, heavyweight vaselike baroque , made him feel that the twelfth-story room was like a china cabinet into which he was locked, and the satanic hen-legs of wrinkled yellow clawing his papers made him scream out.
During this era, the Devil figures prominently in the writings of Christian contemplatives and theologians, who appeared to be in constant fear of Satanic intrusion in prayer and all other aspects of the spiritual life.
She took to reading, between bouts of nausea, cheap paperback accounts of true crime, serial killers stalking the lonely down I-95, a satanic cult of teenage cannibals terrorizing Fresno, the crossdressing rapist of upper Broadway, stories with the same ambivalent allure of a reptile house, dread wound into hypnotic coils vibrant with meaning, even repulsion had its own particular message to impart.
A brazier was tipped over, causing fire to flare bright between two warehouses, and in the sudden flamelight the Reverend Starbuck saw the satanic banner of the Southern rebels coming toward him.
Together they conducted the first interviews in the case that focused on the murders as the work of a satanic cult.
He admits being caught with Satanic items and with handwritten books about witchcraft.
Word that the case might have satanic overtones was prevalent enough that when the West Memphis Police Department assigned the case number 93-05-0666 to the murder file, reporters asked whether the last three digits had been deliberately chosen.
One proposes that the insidious Satanic purpose is to make us worried about an alien invasion, so that when Jesus and his angels appear over Jerusalem we will be frightened rather than glad.
Fogleman had a videotape in which William was shown telling West Memphis detectives that once, when Damien was drunk, he had confessed to him that he was a member of a satanic cult and that he had raped the three eight-year-old boys, then killed them with a knife.
Whether they are rooting for the atheistic regimes of Stalin and Mao, satanic suicide bombers and terrorists, or the Central Park rapists, liberals always take the side of savages against civilization.
Aineko, overly familiar, drapes over her left shoulder like a satanic stole and delivers a running stream of cracked cellphone chatter into her ear.