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fiendish
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. sinister; evil; conniving; like a fiend.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fiendish \Fiend"ish\, a. Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish. -- Fiend"ish*ly , adv. -- Fiend"ish*ness , n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from fiend + -ish . Related: Fiendishly ; fiendishness . Old English had feondlic "hostile."
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fiendish is the first album (previous album Friction isn't considered official by the band) released by composer Phideaux Xavier . In 2002, Phideaux began to work with Gabriel Moffat, on a series of new demos. He got back together with drummer Rich Hutchins ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a plot of fiendish complexity ▪ Napalm is among the most fiendish of chemical weapons. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It was somehow medieval and hushed, in the shadow of the pit and its fiendish machinery. ▪ The fiendish ...
Usage examples of fiendish.
It was to have been a glorious rebirth--but not all souls were approved, nor were all tombs inviolate, so that certain grotesque mistakes and fiendish abnormalities were to be looked for.
High pitched and fiendish, they penetrated the shells of Madri and of Byzant, of Ning and Tok and Nyork, and curdled the brains of the Aristos and Doctils and Plebos that dwelt there.
Beau had a sudden image of himself as some bewitched inamorato who slavered in fiendish lust for her kisses and her body, and no matter how outrageous he wanted to consider that notion, he perceived a small measure of truth was to be found in it nevertheless.
The blades inside my head, like some fiendish Cuisinart, altered their pitch, mashing my brains in a different way.
And laughed, in joy, the fiendish throng, Mixed with ghosts of the mouldering dead: And their grisly wings, as they floated along, Whistled in murmurs dread.
Nobody left onstage but a few of his pals from the pula, toasting their garlic sausages and warming themselves like sanctimonious Parsees around the embers of their fiendish bone-fires, as they are properly called, according to Saint Elmo of the Smoldering Ecstatics, or else it was Saint Anthony the Great in his bone-on fever.
I compared myself shudderingly to the only human image in that frightful corridor, the man who was torn to pieces by the nameless race, for in the fiendish clawing of the swirling currents there seemed to abide a vindictive rage all the stronger because it was largely impotent.
It was an impressive and beautiful ceremony, I presume, but to me it seemed the most fiendish sight I had ever witnessed, and as the ornaments were adjusted upon her beautiful figure and her collar of gold swung open in the hands of Than Kosis I raised my long-sword above my head, and, with the heavy hilt, I shattered the glass of the great window and sprang into the midst of the astonished assemblage.
He looked at Josiah Bartram in wonderment as the self-admitted murderer went into the details of his fiendish work.
They had all been in some terrible kind of conflict, and were torn and mangled in fiendish and altogether inexplicable ways.
To this Lysia pointed with a fiendish glee, as she pulled Theos forward.
The two gigantic negroes that now laid hold of Tom, with fiendish exultation in their faces, might have formed no unapt personification of powers of darkness.
I was held a hapless prisoner by the fiendish whitecoat scientists, before they fired me forward into Deathlands, I became very fond of folk music.
Two minions of Kwa, fiendish foes to society, whose evil careers must be ended.
That fiendish figure at the wheel of the escaping sedan had been Kwa, the Living Joss!