[noun] [C] - a cruel, unpleasant personTheir father was a fiend, violent when he was drunk.The newspaper report portrayed the car driver as a fiend, without a single good quality.A fiend can also be a person who likes something in an extreme way.a health/fresh-air/racing fiendShe's a fiend for chocolate/exercise.
FIEND
Meaning of FIEND in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012