fiendishly


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fiend·ish

 (fēn′dĭsh)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or suggestive of a fiend; diabolical.
2. Extremely wicked or cruel.
3. Extremely bad, disagreeable, or difficult: a fiendish blizzard; a fiendish problem.

fiend′ish·ly adv.
fiend′ish·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.fiendishly - as a devil; in an evil manner; "his writing could be diabolically satiric"
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Translations
بولَع شَديد، بصورة شيطانِيَّهجِدّا
ďábelskystrašlivě
djævelsktgrusomt
ördögienpokolian
djöfullegaeinstaklega
alabildiğineçokşeytancasına

fiendishly

[ˈfiːndɪʃlɪ] ADVterriblemente
fiendishly difficultterriblemente difícil
fiendishly expensivecarísimo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

fiendishly

[ˈfiːndɪʃli] adv
[clever] → extrêmement
[difficult, complicated] → abominablement
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

fiendishly

adv
(inf: = very) difficult, clever, complicatedhöllisch (inf), → verteufelt (inf); funnywahnsinnig (inf); it’s fiendishly simplees ist verblüffend einfach
(= evilly) mean, ambitious, laugh, grinteuflisch
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

fiendishly

[ˈfiːndɪʃlɪ] adv (see adj) → diabolicamente, tremendamente
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

fiend

(fiːnd) noun
1. a devil. the fiends of hell.
2. a wicked or cruel person. She's an absolute fiend when she's angry.
3. a person who is very enthusiastic about something. a fresh air fiend; a fiend for work.
ˈfiendish adjective
1. wicked or devilish. a fiendish temper.
2. very difficult, clever etc. a fiendish plan.
ˈfiendishly adverb
1. wickedly.
2. very. fiendishly difficult.
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References in classic literature ?
This was more than Lady Arabella's curious dual nature could stand-- the ghoulish element in her rose triumphant, and she abandoned all idea of marriage with Edgar Caswall, gloating fiendishly over the thought of revenge.
Then Clare, thrown by sheer misery into one of the demoniacal moods in which a man does despite to his true principles, called her close to him, and fiendishly whispered in her ear the most heterodox ideas he could think of.
That swindling Pumblechook, exalted into the beneficent contriver of the whole occasion, actually took the top of the table; and, when he addressed them on the subject of my being bound, and had fiendishly congratulated them on my being liable to imprisonment if I played at cards, drank strong liquors, kept late hours or bad company, or indulged in other vagaries which the form of my indentures appeared to contemplate as next to inevitable, he placed me standing on a chair beside him, to illustrate his remarks.
It amazed me to think that one so divinely beautiful could at the same time be so fiendishly vindictive.
Peg chuckled quite fiendishly and Stephen Grant tried to look as if nothing had been said.
I am not brutally selfish, blindly unjust, or fiendishly ungrateful.
And while he stared thunderstruck, with the gaping scissors on his fingers, I shouted my discovery at him fiendishly, in six words, without comment.
And in this face that resembled the face of a fat and fiendishly knowing baby there glittered a pair of clever, peering, unbelieving black eyes.
It was hot there too; big flies buzzed fiendishly, and did not sting, but stabbed.
Did Brayne hate his foe so fiendishly that he stood sabring his body in the moonlight?"
It's a weekend without football so we've produced another fiendishly tricky quiz to help fill the time when you'd usually be watching the Toffees.