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 Although there are allusions to a Trump-like fiend accelerating the country’s decay, Powers isn’t interested in exploring the full scientific and political complexity of our environmental catastrophe. — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021 It is not known what enterprising horticulturist or curious fragrance fiend first puzzled out this laborious process, but it’s been practiced for millennia. — April Long, Town & Country, 26 Aug. 2021 The flowery fiend was full petal to the metal all season on The Masked Dancer, but ultimately fell short in the finale, coming in third behind Sloth and Cotton Candy. — Andrea Towers, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2021 Smoking rates would skyrocket, and each new nicotine fiend created would bring additional savings to society. — Kyle Smith, National Review, 12 Aug. 2021 Nick Bjugstad, getting early minutes, was a forechecking fiend. — Star Tribune, 19 May 2021 So every karaoke fiend owes him a debt of gratitude. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2021 One is hard put, though, to find anyone singling out Lincoln as a racist fiend either before his murder or for decades thereafter. — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021 The Masked Singer said goodbye to everyone's favorite trash panda on Wednesday night's episode, and the furry fiend turned out to be actor and restaurateur Danny Trejo. — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2021

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