1
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
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
So now these eight foreign fiends are in Djibouti, squatting in a shipping container on the U.S. Naval base there, guarded by 11 ICE agents who’d like to be home for Independence Day.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 2 July 2025
Pickle fiends—which, apparently, includes most of our staff—will spot this beloved flavor at first whiff of these craveable chips.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 10 June 2025
Jack O’Connell creepily plays the fiend like a cult leader, not looking to feast so much as assimilate.
—A.a. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2025
That’s perhaps to demonstrate how unaffected and unscathed that J.B., a comfortably middle-class white guy who comes from a comfortably middle-class family, is from all that noise of draft dodgers, dope fiends, and radical feminists banging on the door.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 2 July 2025
Pickle fiends—which, apparently, includes most of our staff—will spot this beloved flavor at first whiff of these craveable chips.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 10 June 2025
Jack O’Connell creepily plays the fiend like a cult leader, not looking to feast so much as assimilate.
—A.a. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2025
That’s perhaps to demonstrate how unaffected and unscathed that J.B., a comfortably middle-class white guy who comes from a comfortably middle-class family, is from all that noise of draft dodgers, dope fiends, and radical feminists banging on the door.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
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“Fiend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiend. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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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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