fiend

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\ ˈfēnd

Definition of fiend

1a : devil sense 1

b : demon

c : a person of great wickedness or maliciousness

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

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Examples of fiend in a Sentence

His hands were trembling, actually trembling, as if he were some sort of coffee fiend or something. — 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 These 20 gel-cream pencils tick all the boxes on a liner fiend's must-have list: a wide and unique shade range, varying finishes, a sharpenable tip, and a foolproof formula. — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, "Haus Laboratories Eye-Dentify Eyeliners Are Perfect for Self-Expression in Dark Times," 31 July 2020 Piotr Marcinski / EyeEmGetty Images As any bottle blonde or hot tool fiend will tell you, hair conditioners are great and necessary but a deep-treatment hair mask is the real superstar for keeping your locks soft and moisturized. — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, "Easy Homemade Hair Masks for Healthier Strands," 22 Apr. 2020 Of course, this year’s winning engineers aren’t all just inventing new forms of damage control—there are a few not-so-simple pleasures on the list, for Star Wars buffs and robot fiends alike. — Popular Science, "The most important engineering innovations of 2019," 3 Dec. 2019 Artists, exercise fiends and actors in a new theater form are experimenting now. — Los Angeles Times, "It’s official: Coronavirus forces even postponed Game Developers Conference online only," 30 Apr. 2020 This is not surprising as Kylie is a notorious taco fiend. — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, "Kris Jenner Takes Care Of A Delirious Kylie Post-Surgery On KUWTK," 14 Apr. 2020 Transformed in a flash from cocktail fiend to a person who has to understand how gutters work, Irby’s new life is a prompt for a whole new kind of anxiety. — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "Samantha Irby Is All Grown Up," 17 Apr. 2020 Neither recommends meat stocks or ham hocks, which may put off old-school bean fiends. — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, "Two new cookbooks on beans perfect for coronavirus shelter-in-place cooking," 17 Apr. 2020 Durst has pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder charge, and has repeatedly denied killing his longtime fiend Susan Berman. — Aj Willingham, CNN, "'Tiger King': The not-so-secret formula behind its popularity," 5 Apr. 2020

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