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: a person extremely devoted to a pursuit or study : fanatic
a golf fiend
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: addict sense 1
a dope fiend
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: wizard sense 2
a fiend at mathematics
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Examples of fiend in a Sentence
His hands were trembling, actually trembling, as if he were some sort of coffee fiend or something.
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Road to Wellville, 1993
Wodehouse may not have liked Dickens, but he certainly read him. He read like a fiend.
—Christopher Hitchens, Times Literary Supplement, 7-13 Sept. 1990
The shameless effrontery of the fiend, at the café, pretending to forget all he had done to her, begging to take up with her again, as if nothing had happened between them a dozen years ago.
—Irving Wallace, The Plot, 1967
a fiend in human form
He's a real golf fiend.
T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Road to Wellville, 1993
Wodehouse may not have liked Dickens, but he certainly read him. He read like a fiend.
—Christopher Hitchens, Times Literary Supplement, 7-13 Sept. 1990
The shameless effrontery of the fiend, at the café, pretending to forget all he had done to her, begging to take up with her again, as if nothing had happened between them a dozen years ago.
—Irving Wallace, The Plot, 1967
a fiend in human form
He's a real golf fiend.
Recent Examples on the Web
Over the last 10 years, Kendall Jenner has gone from nascent model to fashion fiend.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2024
Long-term dope fiends know the inevitable disappointment in every next taste, but the hope and intention hangs on a lot longer.
—Henry Everingham, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2024
Austria Holiday fiend Krampus may have already gained some notoriety in the U.S. thanks to pop-culture portrayals such as the eponymous 2015 cult holiday horror film, but the malevolent half-goat, half-man anti-Santa traces back to folklore from Austria’s Alpine region.
—Chad De Guzman, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
Before then, though, McDonald’s is offering a DIY solution for McRib fiends.
—Mike Snider, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2024
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2024
Long-term dope fiends know the inevitable disappointment in every next taste, but the hope and intention hangs on a lot longer.
—Henry Everingham, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2024
Austria Holiday fiend Krampus may have already gained some notoriety in the U.S. thanks to pop-culture portrayals such as the eponymous 2015 cult holiday horror film, but the malevolent half-goat, half-man anti-Santa traces back to folklore from Austria’s Alpine region.
—Chad De Guzman, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
Before then, though, McDonald’s is offering a DIY solution for McRib fiends.
—Mike Snider, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Fiend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiend. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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fiend
noun1
2
: an extremely wicked or cruel person
3
a
: a person enthusiastically devoted to something
fiendish
adjective
ˈfēn-dish
fiendishly
adverb
fiendishness
noun
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