adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a plot of fiendish complexity
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Napalm is among the most fiendish of chemical weapons.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was somehow medieval and hushed, in the shadow of the pit and its fiendish machinery.
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The fiendish complexity of claiming the credits may be putting people off.
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The enemy, supposing we were disabled, set up a fiendish yell of triumph.
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The whole thing was so oblique, so fiendish in its circumlocutions, that he did not want to accept it.
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Will Robin solve the fiendish crimes?
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You want us to endorse some fiendish invention that will be the means of taking human life!