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  • adverb In a demonic way.

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Examples

  • Niebuhr would have chosen the word "demonically" with care; in effect, he dubbed the Soviet Union an evil empire thirty years before Ronald Reagan did.

    A Man On a Gray Horse 2002

  • Niebuhr would have chosen the word "demonically" with care; in effect, he dubbed the Soviet Union an evil empire thirty years before Ronald Reagan did.

    A Man On a Gray Horse 2002

  • Many members of this ensemble go through variations of the same experience: a kind of demonically sponsored nervous breakdown, which pushes them toward the psychic space the title alludes to: The Stray Sod ... is a concept deriving from Irish folklore.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • Many members of this ensemble go through variations of the same experience: a kind of demonically sponsored nervous breakdown, which pushes them toward the psychic space the title alludes to: The Stray Sod ... is a concept deriving from Irish folklore.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • PLEASE do NOT call this demonically-possessed barbie doll a Witch!

    Think Progress » Miss Beverly Hills tries to one-up Carrie Prejean, says it’s divine law that gays be put to death. 2010

  • I wanted to walk with people like me, who'd been so numbed by too many decades of governmental abuse of power and lack of empathy, and seduced by food porn and fantasy football leagues and divided by demonically cynical political operatives who keep the Have Nots from coming together by keeping them at odds fighting social issues, to properly the protest the massive ground they've lost in the last 40 or so years.

    Michael Woods: Zuccotti Park Day 54: No Smell of Urine or Feces Michael Woods 2011

  • The third pillow, the one necessary to support her arm for the next forty-five minutes, had demonically found its way across the room.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • I wanted to walk with people like me, who'd been so numbed by too many decades of governmental abuse of power and lack of empathy, and seduced by food porn and fantasy football leagues and divided by demonically cynical political operatives who keep the Have Nots from coming together by keeping them at odds fighting social issues, to properly the protest the massive ground they've lost in the last 40 or so years.

    Michael Woods: Zuccotti Park Day 54: No Smell of Urine or Feces Michael Woods 2011

  • At 70st, Mason resembled something fashioned by a malevolent balloon artist at the birthday party of a demonically possessed child.

    Too many of us treat young white women as trash | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • So why do we have to keep this ungodly anthem, which makes even the best singer on earth sound like she swallowed a demonically possessed cat?

    Christina Aguilera didn't botch the national anthem. Francis Scott Key did. Alexandra Petri 2011

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