Archidiabolical

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to an archdevil. not-comparable, rare

    "1933, Malcolm Cowley, “Trotsky and the Art of Insurrection” in Henry Dan Piper (ed.), Think Back on Us . . . A Contemporary Chronicle of the 1930’s by Malcolm Cowley, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967, p. 28, Always Trotsky displays that archidiabolical pride which is both his virtue as an individual and his most dangerous quality as a statesman."

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"1933, Malcolm Cowley, “Trotsky and the Art of Insurrection” in Henry Dan Piper (ed.), Think Back on Us . . . A Contemporary Chronicle of the 1930’s by Malcolm Cowley, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967, p. 28, Always Trotsky displays that archidiabolical pride which is both his virtue as an individual and his most dangerous quality as a statesman."

Etymology

From archi- + diabolical.

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