"demonic" is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe anything related to, or resembling, a demon. For example, "The horrifically loud noise was so demonic that it sent shivers down my spine."
The brooding figure of André, played with brilliant malevolence by Niels Arestrup, takes on the full demonic force that leads to tragedy.
"Since then," says Loftus, "I and many others have planted bizarre memories of accidents: animal attacks, nearly drowning, witnessing demonic possession.
This is a blasted, haunted landscape, populated by demonic child soldiers and a shadowy guerrilla army that slaughters in the bush or under the cover of night.
Throwing a snippet of Donna Summer's I Feel Love into the Can't Stop Feeling while singer Alex Kapranos shimmies across the stage like Sink The Pink's straightest extra and hammering through the demonic disco of Michael, Take Me Out, Love Illumination and Ulysses as if they're headlining on a tight deadline, Franz are back and fighting for it.
Anywhere else that might be stating the obvious; here Bowie, hollow of cheekbone and hounded by a demonic lead guitar, makes it sound like an urgent priority.
It was the first hospital in Spain to treat mental illness as something other than divine punishment or demonic possession.
Why is all the ladies so good-looking?" Then, as if hearing a demonic voice from far away, summoning him back to an eternity of remorse, Stalin cast a baleful look at my popcorn and the ladies of Lost, and faded away.
A man wearing a demonic mask smokes a cigarette while cradling a sleeping baby.
An episode in 1964 showed London's empty streets stalked by trundling storm troopers, their plungers raised in a "Sieg Heil" salute.While adults relished the echo of the demonic wartime foe, children found the Daleks' absurd nastiness captivating.
But James Gavin's appalling, enthralling biography chronicles how his life turned into a demonic obsession with drugs, while he still produced heavenly music.___________________________________Schott's Original Miscellany.
A man of demonic energy, he was ubiquitous.As an archetypal oligarch, he provided rich material to writers and film-makers.
