Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of diabolize.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word diabolized.

Examples

  • There were two things, when I was a boy, that diabolized my imagination, -- I mean, that gave me a distinct apprehension of a formidable bodily shape which prowled round the neighborhood where I was born and bred.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

  • Of course the conspiring farmers are idealized and their enemies are diabolized; but all this is so in the saga.

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

  • But the last, justice, at least as between the Infinite and the finite, has been so utterly dehumanized, disintegrated, decomposed, and diabolized in passing through the minds of the half-civilized banditti who have peopled and unpeopled the world for some scores of generations, that it has become a mere algebraic x, and has no fixed value whatever as a human conception.

    The Poet at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • But the last, justice, at least as between the Infinite and the finite, has been so utterly dehumanized, disintegrated, decomposed, and diabolized in passing through the minds of the half-civilized banditti who have peopled and unpeopled the world for some scores of generations, that it has become a mere algebraic x, and has no fixed value whatever as

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • If the truth about Jaleh Place's event find difficult to reach the ears of French people, it's because journalists have diabolized the Shah's regime and cannot confess they exaggerated the facts for purely ideological reasons without knowing anything about the history of Iran, Islam, Shiite or Iranian society which suffers from the mullahs 'burden!

    Iran Resist 2010

  • If the truth about Jaleh Place's event find difficult to reach the ears of French people, it's because journalists have diabolized the Shah's regime and cannot confess they exaggerated the facts for purely ideological reasons without knowing anything about the history of Iran, Islam, Shiite or Iranian society which suffers from the mullahs 'burden!

    Iran Resist Kaveh Mohseni 2010

  • Obama seemed to be severing himself from Senator McGovern, who diabolized the war, from John Kerry, who came home from Vietnam to say Americans were acting like war criminals, and from Jimmy Carter, who in 1976 called Vietnam a "racist war."

    西儒 ─ The Western Confucian 2009

  • Obama seemed to be severing himself from Sen. McGovern, who diabolized the war, from John Kerry, who came home from Vietnam to say Americans were acting like war criminals, and from Jimmy Carter, who in 1976 called Vietnam a

    VDARE.com - Latest Articles 2009

  • a boy, that diabolized my imagination, -- I mean, that gave me a distinct apprehension of a formidable bodily shape which prowled round the neighborhood where I was born and bred.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • a boy, that diabolized my imagination, -- I mean, that gave me a distinct apprehension of a formidable bodily shape which prowled round the neighborhood where I was born and bred.

    The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.