fiend
IPA: fˈind
noun
- A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.
- A very evil person.
- (obsolete) An enemy; a foe.
- (religious, archaic) The enemy of mankind, specifically, the Devil; Satan.
- (informal) An addict or fanatic.
verb
- (slang, intransitive) To yearn; to be desperate (for something, especially drugs).
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Examples of "fiend" in Sentences
- And our favorite little fiend is on the cover - Cthulu ...
- "His Master," as he called the fiend, then directed him the road he should take.
- My best thought for your exams The muffins looks delicious and your boy fiend is so kind
- Or shall we consider them as embodied in the word fiend, and call him Lincoln, the Fiend?
- "What the foul fiend is the meaning of all this?" in the same breath inquired the father and son.
- After reading your comment, I went back to determine who this ungrateful fiend is who was so anxious to renounce his or her citizenship and I was also unable to find any such post.
- This happens more often with elderly people; and it was on such an occasion that I heard a catchword fiend, a moderately young person, use her pet phrase as a red lantern to stop better, if more halting, talk.
- As Cæcius, the "darkener," became ultimately changed into Cacus, the "evil one," so the name of Vritra, the "concealer," the most famous of the Panis, was gradually generalized until it came to mean "enemy," like the English word fiend, and began to be applied indiscriminately to any kind of evil spirit.
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