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fiendish
[ feen-dish ]
adjective
- diabolically cruel and wicked.
fiendish
/ ˈfiːndɪʃ /
adjective
- of or like a fiend
- diabolically wicked or cruel
- informal.extremely difficult or unpleasant
a fiendish problem
Derived Forms
- ˈfiendishly, adverb
- ˈfiendishness, noun
Other Words From
- fiendish·ly adverb
- fiendish·ness noun
Example Sentences
Michael Jewett, a professor of chemical engineering at Northwestern University who was not involved in the study, compares the intricate process of making a decoy to an especially fiendish puzzle.
Surely only an advanced hacker could mastermind such a fiendish act — right?
Somewhere in the Afterlife, Laurence Sterne must have been tickled to see his fiendish book infused with new life.
Croatians, naturally, were the fiendish enemy, second only to the Turks.
And he was a prankster, who devised outlandish even fiendish tricks to play on friends and unsuspecting associates.
Although a few of the more fiendish ones will have you wishing all manner of physical harm on the developers.
The enemy saw and with fiendish yells of triumph swarmed upon and over the pieces.
It has upheld the grossest errors and the most fiendish theories as the special revelations of God.
There came a volley followed by fiendish yells and the advance came tearing back, panic-stricken.
A burly warrior scooped up coals on a piece of bark and with a fiendish grin leaped through the smoke.
Laughing when, as you say yourself, the man that she—the cat—wrote that fiendish letter to is in trouble.
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