Cacodaemoniacal

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Etymology

Greek kakos: bad + daimon: spirit. κακοδαιμων from κακος ‘bad’ + δαιμων ‘genius, divinity’

Adjective

cacodaemoniacal

  1. daemonic.
  2. By extension of a person : evilly .
    There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, brass, and wood-wind, on which St John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodaemoniacal ghastliness; whilst in a multitude of inlaid ebony cabinets reposed the most incredible and unimaginable variety of tomb-loot ever assembled by human madness and perversity.

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