He was branded by the press as "villainous" and "diabolical."

他被媒体贴上了“恶棍”和“魔鬼”的标签。

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The traffic was diabolical.

交通状况糟糕透了。

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This diabolical agent had the divine permission, for a season, to burrow into the clergyman's intimacy, and plot against his soul.

这个恶魔的代理人获得神圣的特许，在一段时间里，钻入牧师的内心，阴谋破坏他的灵魂。

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To Monique Doll, Keyes was a Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde personality, but she saw only the diabolical side.

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The Serbs' maneuver was made the more diabolical, however, for its being cloaked in the garb of a legitimate exercise of democracy -- a proposition calculated further to undermine the prospects for unified Western action during the interval.

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Couples was sharp with the putter most of the day, if only because he'd seen even the more diabolical pin positions at least once or twice before.

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