1
: perversely diabolical
took a fiendish pleasure in hurting people
2
: extremely cruel or wicked
3
: excessively bad, unpleasant, or difficult
fiendish weather
fiendishly
adverb
fiendishness
noun
Examples of fiendish in a Sentence
He takes a fiendish delight in hurting people.
a fiendish delight in playing cruel tricks
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The red Indian of the Western plains tied his prisoner to the stake, tortured him, and danced in fiendish glee while his victim writhed in the flames.
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Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
Jumbo brings a humanizing clarity to Lady Macbeth without in the least compromising her character’s fiendish side.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025
But an indie Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, or even Skate, this is not: Eng is whisking us off to the nine hellish layers of the underworld to complete a series of fiendish skateboarding trials.
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Fortnum & Mason Piccadilly puzzle Wentworth makes some of the world’s most fiendish jigsaw puzzles.
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Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
Jumbo brings a humanizing clarity to Lady Macbeth without in the least compromising her character’s fiendish side.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025
But an indie Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, or even Skate, this is not: Eng is whisking us off to the nine hellish layers of the underworld to complete a series of fiendish skateboarding trials.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Fortnum & Mason Piccadilly puzzle Wentworth makes some of the world’s most fiendish jigsaw puzzles.
—Sarah Turner, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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“Fiendish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiendish. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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