How to Use fiendish in a Sentence

fiendish

adjective
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  • He takes a fiendish delight in hurting people.
  • Part of the problem is simply the fiendish nature of the pathogen.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • One section of the slide had dropped out of sight like some kind of fiendish trap door.
    — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 4 June 2017
  • The new plant near Berlin probably won’t prove so fiendish.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
  • In Florida, fiendish clowns were spotted lurking by the side of the road.
    — Frank T. McAndrew, Quartzy, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The speech is meant to yank the scales from our eyes, revealing the fiendish grandiosity of his power-lust.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 1 June 2017
  • Even Robert Rauschenberg makes a fiendish cameo in the book, asking De Kooning to give him a drawing.
    — Jamie Hood, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
  • In order to find the ultimate prize, Wade has to solve a series of fiendish puzzles.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 18 June 2019
  • The divine plan, as seen on TV, is a world in which God designs fiendish plot arcs to eviscerate us all.
    — Noah Berlatsky, Houston Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Work together to solve a fiendish series of puzzles or fall prey to Franklin’s Curse!
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2021
  • These fiendish folks also plied me with snacks and beverages.
    — Mike Danahey, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2017
  • But something has been lost in the fiendish goal of perplexing the bakers—and the audience—in the service of TV drama.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Preventing data breaches is a fiendish game of cat-and-mouse.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Head back, his fiendish little body arched toward the lights, Mars holds the guitar straight up in front of his face and works the tremolo to make the sound of the slow-lifting gears of a Harley.
    — Dean Kuipers, SPIN, 8 Jan. 2023
  • If the data is sitting in a database, perhaps a fiendish hacker might try to access the data.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • The cyclical, if severe, storm had the fiendish luck of bringing together heavy rains, high tide, and a lack of preparation.
    — Jessica Wapner, Quartz, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Not to mention adding a fiendish new fashion icon to your Halloween costume vision board!
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The original show was set on a remote farm in the hills of Ireland where contestants gathered to test their nerve against three fiendish games.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Jan. 2022
  • He was bested by a fiendish reed instrument called the saxophone.
    — Bo Emerson, ajc, 20 July 2022
  • Watch the British Open on a linksland course – St. Andrews, say – and take fiendish pleasure in observing players plotting shots as the wind whips their faces sideways.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The aim was not one of fiendish engineering, to change eye color, which would have been merely cosmetic.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
  • Keeping that in mind, widespread technical issues at launch may hold the fiendish title back from winning the best indie award.
    — WIRED, 5 Dec. 2022
  • From mini-monsters, creepy couples, fiendish families, and more the Zombie Fashion Show has it all.
    — courant.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Lambert also recommends a few fiendish touches in the guest bathroom.
    — Sarah Wolf Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Let it not be said that there is any less vigor and determination back of the pursuit of the Gordon girl’s fiendish slayer than there would have been had the little victim been white.
    — Hadley Meares, Los Angeles Magazine, 7 June 2018
  • By wasting no time making Viard’s new role official, Chanel put a quick end to the fiendish guessing game of who’s on next that fashion routinely delights in.
    — Jessica Iredale, Town & Country, 19 Feb. 2019
  • That head housed a singular brain, which again and again allowed Poirot to outperform the police, outfox criminals and solve the most complex and fiendish murders.
    — Sophie Hannah, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Is your company’s dress code just a secret test of high-level reasoning skills designed by fiendish bosses?
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Anything unfortunate enough to make contact gets grabbed by the whip spider’s massive pincers, each twice as long as the animal itself and tipped in fiendish spikes.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2011
  • And Flynn is a breakout discovery as Mooney — coolly insouciant, with a fiendish touch of Joe Orton rudeness.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2018

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