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[ feen-dish ] / ˈfin dɪʃ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR fiendish ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivediabolically cruel and wicked. Origin of fiendishFirst recorded in 1520–30; fiend + -ish1 OTHER WORDS FROM fiendishfiend·ish·ly, adverbfiend·ish·ness, nounWords nearby fiendishfield trial, field trip, field winding, fieldwork, fiend, fiendish, Fiennes, fier, fierce, fieri facias, Fierstein Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for fiendishSurely only an advanced hacker could mastermind such a fiendish act — right? A Female Writer’s New Milestone: Her First Death Threat|Annie Gaus|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST Somewhere in the Afterlife, Laurence Sterne must have been tickled to see his fiendish book infused with new life. Crazy Cartography: Artists and Writers Conjure a Slew of Imaginative Maps|Lauren Elkin|April 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST Croatians, naturally, were the fiendish enemy, second only to the Turks. Michael Tomasky on the Media’s Foolish Elizabeth Warren Witch Hunt|Michael Tomasky|May 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST That fiendish woman lied, then, when she told me that you shuddered at my very name? The Lamplighter|Maria S. Cummins
And doubtless with my smoke-grimed face and fiendish rage I looked a demon. The Cloister and the Hearth|Charles Reade This is a better argument for their separate existence than their fiendish temper is; but it is not in itself enough. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death|Frederick W. H. Myers And there is no haunting demon of travel quite so fiendish as the journal that must be written, and that has got behind. The Chautauquan, Vol. III, January 1883|The Chautauquan Literary and Scientific Circle During six months this fiendish savage held undisputed sway over Colombia. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851|Various
British Dictionary definitions for fiendish
adjectiveof or like a fiend diabolically wicked or cruel informal extremely difficult or unpleasanta fiendish problem Derived forms of fiendishfiendishly, adverbfiendishness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to fiendishnefarious, brutish, atrocious, beastly, cruel, demonic, devilish, diabolic, evil, hellish, inhuman, malicious, sadistic, satanic, savage, vicious, wicked |