How to Use fiendish in a Sentence

fiendish

adjective
  • He takes a fiendish delight in hurting people.
  • 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
  • Part of the problem is simply the fiendish nature of the pathogen.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • These fiendish folks also plied me with snacks and beverages.
    — Mike Danahey, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2017
  • Preventing data breaches is a fiendish game of cat-and-mouse.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The great-grandfathers could be said to resemble fiendish claves.
    — Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Plotting kind of my most fiendish, happy, mad scientist state.
    — Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
  • Next up is Pagli, a madwoman with a thin, charred body, fiendish laugh, and ghoulish shrieks.
    — JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
  • In Florida, fiendish clowns were spotted lurking by the side of the road.
    — Frank T. McAndrew, Quartzy, 6 Sep. 2019
  • He was bested by a fiendish reed instrument called the saxophone.
    — Bo Emerson, ajc, 20 July 2022
  • 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
  • The writer of this fiendish plot was (surprise surprise) a puzzle expert.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In order to find the ultimate prize, Wade has to solve a series of fiendish puzzles.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 18 June 2019
  • The favorite characters return, their fiendish traits on full display.
    — Vogue, 19 July 2024
  • Not to mention adding a fiendish new fashion icon to your Halloween costume vision board!
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Work together to solve a fiendish series of puzzles or fall prey to Franklin’s Curse!
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2021
  • If the data is sitting in a database, perhaps a fiendish hacker might try to access the data.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • Lambert also recommends a few fiendish touches in the guest bathroom.
    — Sarah Wolf Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Lambert also recommends a few fiendish touches in the guest bathroom.
    — Sarah Wolf Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The divine plan, as seen on TV, is a world in which God designs fiendish plot arcs to eviscerate us all.
    — Noah Berlatsky, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Gutfeld yells in mock outrage, and then grins his expensive, fiendish, but strangely vulnerable grin.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
  • 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
  • Even Robert Rauschenberg makes a fiendish cameo in the book, asking De Kooning to give him a drawing.
    — Jamie Hood, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Jim Carrey plays the eponymous Grinch, a fiendish Whoville outlaw who declares war on the festive season.
    — Danny Horn, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Nov. 2025
  • His younger brother tells the story of a family in fiendish pain and their individual journeys into the future.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 21 Nov. 2022

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