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infernal

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1. infernal - Noun

2. infernal - Adjective

3. infernal - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients.

Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct.

An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. George Bernard Shaw

Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend. Emanuel Swedenborg

The newspapers Sir, they are the most villanous, licentious, abominable, infernal Not that I ever read them No, I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real. Thomas Carlyle

You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong. Peter Greenaway

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell. Hugo Chávez

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