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UK
/fˈiːnd/
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[ US /ˈfind/ ]
[ US /ˈfind/ ]
NOUN
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
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a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject - an evil supernatural being
How To Use fiend In A Sentence
- His self-image is rooted in robotic toughness, like the shape-shifting, molten-metal fiend in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
- The words heard by the party upon the staircase were the Frenchman's exclamations of horror and affright, commingled with the fiendish jabberings of the brute.
- For him, the fiend that shook his faith was the ichneumon wasp, which lays its eggs inside the larvae of the horntail wasp.
- He is a fiend at tennis.
- Don't speak to me that way, you wretched fiend.
- New stellarators beat the confinement problem by creating a quasi-symmetric field - trading fiendishly complex magnetic fields for fiendishly complex magnets.
- The Chinese a script so fiendishly complicated that they cannot produce a proper keyboard.
- I have to applaud Chris for his miraculous, classy turn-around from drug-riddled dope fiend to responsible father and Broadway star.
- People long ago produced fiendishly complicated analyses of visual forms: witness Nicholas of Cusa's tract on the all-seeing icon of Christ and Thomas Browne's labyrinthine meditation on the quincunx.
- Local fishing crews had told him of the Lombok Strait's fiendishly shifting currents, vicious whirlpools, and unexpected waves far from shore.