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2
: a person extremely devoted to a pursuit or study : fanatic
a golf fiend
3
: addict sense 1
a dope fiend
4
: wizard sense 2
a fiend at mathematics
Synonyms
Examples of fiend in a Sentence
His hands were trembling, actually trembling, as if he were some sort of coffee fiend or something.
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Road to Wellville, 1993
Wodehouse may not have liked Dickens, but he certainly read him. He read like a fiend.
—Christopher Hitchens, Times Literary Supplement, 7-13 Sept. 1990
The shameless effrontery of the fiend, at the café, pretending to forget all he had done to her, begging to take up with her again, as if nothing had happened between them a dozen years ago.
—Irving Wallace, The Plot, 1967
a fiend in human form
He's a real golf fiend.
T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Road to Wellville, 1993
Wodehouse may not have liked Dickens, but he certainly read him. He read like a fiend.
—Christopher Hitchens, Times Literary Supplement, 7-13 Sept. 1990
The shameless effrontery of the fiend, at the café, pretending to forget all he had done to her, begging to take up with her again, as if nothing had happened between them a dozen years ago.
—Irving Wallace, The Plot, 1967
a fiend in human form
He's a real golf fiend.
Recent Examples on the Web
Alas, there's no sleep for the wicked (or in this case, culture fiends), with this month looking just as, if not more, packed than the last.
—Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 2 Feb. 2024
Patrick Fugit stands in for Crowe as William Miller, a teenage rock fiend who gets to travel with the fictional band Stillwater (based on Crowe’s own experiences with the Allman Brothers Band).
—Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
As supporters of the death penalty, a rare sentence that KSM deserves, we were resigned to a permanent life imprisonment for these fiends.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024
Whom the foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame, and through ford and whirlipool, o’er bog and quagmire . . .
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
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Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 2 Feb. 2024
Patrick Fugit stands in for Crowe as William Miller, a teenage rock fiend who gets to travel with the fictional band Stillwater (based on Crowe’s own experiences with the Allman Brothers Band).
—Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
As supporters of the death penalty, a rare sentence that KSM deserves, we were resigned to a permanent life imprisonment for these fiends.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024
Whom the foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame, and through ford and whirlipool, o’er bog and quagmire . . .
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
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“Fiend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiend. Accessed 18 Sep. 2024.
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fiend
noun1
2
: an extremely wicked or cruel person
3
a
: a person enthusiastically devoted to something
fiendish
adjective
ˈfēn-dish
fiendishly
adverb
fiendishness
noun
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