Synonyms of demonic
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the villain in the movie cackled with demonic laughter
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In this third installment, Sienna Shaw (Lauren LaVera) is still shaken from her last run-in with Art, but the demonic jester has returned for more murder just in time for Christmas — and he's got a sidekick (Samantha Scaffidi).
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Huntley Woods, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
Crowe followed The Pope’s Exorcist with 2024’s The Exorcism, playing a respected actor who ruined his career through drink and drugs but gets the chance to return to the spotlight when an actor playing a priest in a demonic-possession flick dies mysteriously on the set.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
Voiced by Mark Acheson, and filtered through demonic and deep bass, the commanding offscreen presence is something only Billy can hear.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 Dec. 2025
So thoroughly did European missionaries stigmatize Inuit beliefs that, even now, the more pious members of an older generation consider an appreciation of Indigenous spirits to be a sign of something demonic afoot.
—Dawn Chan, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
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Huntley Woods, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
Crowe followed The Pope’s Exorcist with 2024’s The Exorcism, playing a respected actor who ruined his career through drink and drugs but gets the chance to return to the spotlight when an actor playing a priest in a demonic-possession flick dies mysteriously on the set.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
Voiced by Mark Acheson, and filtered through demonic and deep bass, the commanding offscreen presence is something only Billy can hear.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 Dec. 2025
So thoroughly did European missionaries stigmatize Inuit beliefs that, even now, the more pious members of an older generation consider an appreciation of Indigenous spirits to be a sign of something demonic afoot.
—Dawn Chan, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
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“Demonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demonic. Accessed 27 Dec. 2025.
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