It was a diabolical scheme.
Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas called it a "diabolical scheme".
Ms. Hadley is an innocent victim of a diabolical scheme".
Masterminds in search of a big score before retirement typically drive these plots, aided by computer hackers who must outwit diabolical security systems, and by psychopaths with shoulder cannons.
But a diabolical and unjust system violated his human rights and that matters more than any differences between us.
It was the system, the hypocritical, diabolical, capricious system, that had to take him down.
I had fairly, honestly and exhaustedly reached the final level, where my alter ego, Joanna Dark, was instructed to blow up an alien temple's target system, activate an access bridge and assassinate the diabolical space invader responsible for wreaking so much interplanetary havoc.
The fear of a centralized computer system becomes the fear of its dangerous manipulation by diabolical corporate overlords or a usurping government, but also by the infiltration of a hacker or rogue programmer who, by one maneuver, can wreak absurdly disproportionate destruction.
But Justice Richard Buchter said Mr. Ramrattan deserved no mercy, calling him a "diabolical conniver and sinister manipulator" who had "shamelessly exploited the criminal justice system".
