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词汇 fiendish
释义 fiendish
adjective
uk /ˈfiːn.dɪʃ/ us /ˈfiːn.dɪʃ/
literary
evil and cruel: 恶魔般的;残忍的
a fiendish attack残忍的袭击
clever and difficult, sometimes in a bad way: 巧妙而又困难的;刁钻的,棘手的
a fiendish crossword复杂的纵横填字游戏
a fiendish plot险恶的阴谋
UKold-fashioned
very great: 极大的;很多的
a fiendish price天价
I'm in a fiendish hurry.我非常急。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
acerbic
acerbically
acerbity
acidly
anti-cruelty
cold-heartedly
cruel
cruelly
cruelty
cruelty to someone/something
meanness
mental cruelty
merciless
mercilessly
mordant
trenchant
trenchantly
uncharitable
uncharitably
unchristian

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Complicated and difficult to do
Serious and unpleasant

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fiendishness

fiendish | American Dictionary


fiendish
adjective
 usually humorousus/ˈfin·dɪʃ/
cruel or evil:
He took fiendish delight in making them wait.

Examples of fiendish


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The motor car brines out all the latent fiendish qualities in mankind.
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There are many planning authorities which seem to take a fiendish delight in spinning matters out over quite small details on planning applications for improvements, and so on.
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Can they be allowed to continue their fiendish reign of terror?
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The cliffhanger scenes at the end of episodes provide many examples of female heroines bound and helpless and facing fiendish death traps.
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The women in the book are of a strange fiendish-angelic nature, tantalising, and terrible, and the men are indescribable out of the book itself.
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An effigy appears as a ghostly, translucent humanoid shape with a fiendish countenance and composed of burning, multicolored flame.
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Their limbs are tipped with sharp-claws, and their faces usually bear a fiendish, toothy grin.
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Myrlochars resemble giant brownish-green spiders with a round body with eight legs, and a fiendish head with eight red eyes.
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Nonetheless, the pace is mostly brisk, the tone most often light, and there are a few streaks of fiendish cleverness.
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Many fiendish creatures are pets or servants or spies or such of demons and devils.
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He is not a perfidious or barbarous or fantastically fiendish foe.
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Four hours before the concert, even standing places could hardly be found in the church, and 7,200 people were sitting and standing to listen to the legendary improvisor's fiendish virtuosity.
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A thing of feverish, fiendish irreverence and conceptual genius...
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At first, they resemble the union of an ant, a scorpion and a spider, but their real fiendish shape can not be compared to any other creature.
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All of it teams with fiendish gastropods.
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