fiendish
Iago's fiendishness is never absolute.
Even her heart will melt. I refuse to credit it with exclusive fiendishness.
the savage fiendishness of the regime

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

Examples of fiendishness

fiendishness
Lower probabilities that the highest random point is within the highest peak's basin of attraction correspond to higher fiendishness.
The number, location, height, and position of the maxima of the landscape can affect its fiendishness.
Here, the simple ring and small world networks prove most successful across the entire range of landscape fiendishness.
But fiendishness alone, it turns out, is not responsible for rates of epistemic success across a sample of networks we investigated.
Here we can outline some details of that trade-off against a background of epistemic landscapes with varying degrees of fiendishness.
At a fiendishness exponent of 1.5, ring and small world networks approximate a 60% success rate, while total networks are at approximately 32%.
Here for simplicity we exhibit the spike to the left (which does not affect the fiendishness index).
There will be an uncountable number of different landscapes that have any given fiendishness index.
Empirical questions may be difficult in other regards as well (e.g., due to ambiguous, missing, or conflicting evidence), but our inquiry here is focused on fiendishness.
We vary the fiendishness index of the landscapes through changes in the parameter z, which tracks the fiendishness index when the number of agents is held fixed.
With a fiendishness exponent of 2, probability differences are dramatic: ring and small world networks have a probability of over 70% of finding the highest peak.
There was no thought in the youngster's mind of anything but the absolute fiendishness in the man's final proposal.
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Bowers had seen rage before, but the peculiar fiendishness of the man's expression, not knowing himself observed, fascinated him.
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There is more of the same general type of fiendishness.
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He saw the lights as before, saw them dancing and pirouetting before his eyes, and suddenly whisk away, as though satiated with their fiendishness.
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