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  • adjective demonic

Etymologies

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demon +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • It mait be ordunary water exchept dat wen indje…inge…drunk bai lawabidin demonish oder fiendish beings itz laik poisun.

    Holy Water in the water bowl… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • But the lean, naked faces of the ex – soldiers gleamed with a smiling, demonish light, and from their narrow mouths simultaneously:

    Kangaroo 2004

  • Somers was demonish, but could be gentle and kind.

    Kangaroo 2004

  • And she could feel the demonish breath of evil moving on the air in waves.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • His men seemed to see him, as by second sight, with the demonish clashing and dashing of wings, like an old god.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • And among the monstrosity of the elements flickered and towered other presences: terrible uncouth things called gringos, white people, and dressed up monsters of rich people, with powers like gods, but uncouth, demonish gods.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • And as he did so, the demonish effrontery died down again, and the peculiar

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • So, these men, unable to overcome the elements, men held down by the serpent tangle of sun and electricity and volcanic emission, they are subject to an ever-recurring, fathomless lust of resentment, a demonish hatred of life itself.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • And at the same time something obstinate and mature, a demonish maturity, opposing her in an animal way.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • Wherever the iron rails run, and passengers are hauled back and forth in railway coaches, there the spirit of rootlessness, of transitoriness, of first and second class in separate compartments, of envy and malice, and of iron and demonish panting engines, seems to bring forth the logical children of materialism, the bolshevists.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

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