noun
Etymology
Origin of archfiend
Example Sentences
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Granted, it has been enriched by its association with Dr. Mabuse, the archfiend of fiction, screen and comic books, starting with the novels of Norbert Jacques and the films of Fritz Lang.
From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2010
The hunchbacked creature was Al Pacino, in makeup and costume as the archfiend Big Boy Caprice, and the object of his admiration was Warren Beatty.
From Time Magazine Archive
Who ever imagined, for example, combatting the archfiend with handguns and encrypted e-mail?
From Time Magazine Archive
If I took this $600,000 and personally appropriated it, I would be the archfiend of the ages.
From Time Magazine Archive
What! place myself in these holes, these mouse-traps, in these tumuli of leaves, where the archfiend himself, habituated to every kind of darkness, could not distinguish anything?—thank you, gentlemen.
From Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by Jesse, William
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