See infernal in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 34–36:",
"text": "Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile\nStird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd\nThe Mother of Mankind",
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"ref": "1711 December 19 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, December 8, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 244; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:",
"text": "the instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings",
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"sense": "UK, as an expletive: very annoying; damned",
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"sense": "UK, as an expletive: very annoying; damned",
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"sense": "UK, as an expletive: very annoying; damned",
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"sense": "UK, as an expletive: very annoying; damned",
"word": "bedebah"
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"sense": "UK, as an expletive: very annoying; damned",
"word": "прокля́тый"
}
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"An inhabitant of the infernal regions, a demon."
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