fiendish
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Synonyms & Antonyms for fiendish
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cacodemonic, demoniac (also demoniacal), demonian, demonic (also demonical), devilish, diabolical (or diabolic), Luciferian, satanic
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In any case, the financial-services industry—which came up with endowment mortgages and fiendish interest-rate hedges as well as PPI—will surely supply another outrage eventually, if on a less spectacular scale. — The Economist, "PPI was a bonanza—for banks, and then for consumers," 29 Aug. 2019 Preventing data breaches is a fiendish game of cat-and-mouse. — The Economist, "The Exxon Valdez of cyberspace," 8 Aug. 2019 In order to find the ultimate prize, Wade has to solve a series of fiendish puzzles. — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, "15+ Young Adult Audiobooks For When You Want To Give Music a Break," 18 June 2019 Tough Mudder events are endurance races with obstacles that include wall climbs, muddy crawls in tight spaces, electrical shocks, rope swings, hanging challenges and other features some might consider fiendish but Tough Mudders seem to enjoy. — John Meyer, The Know, "Tough Mudder opens a bootcamp gym in Denver, one of 4 in the nation," 8 June 2019 As viewers across the US watched the contestants spell out increasingly fiendish words, Merriam-Webster, the dictionary, saw an uptick in obscure words being searched on its website. — Mary Hui, Quartz, "Karmadharaya, thymele, and tjaele: Words from the Spelling Bee’s 8-way-tie finish," 31 May 2019 But don’t worry, they can be bought individually ($3), in flights of four ($11) or by the dozen ($30) for more fiendish eating. — Josie Sexton, The Know, "10 frozen treats to try around Denver this summer," 3 June 2019 Balasaheb Chouhan, a smallholder in Puntamba, says the paperwork for selling to the state is fiendish, and then typically there are week-long queues of farmers waiting to unload their goods, followed by weeks more of waiting to be paid. — The Economist, "India’s government claims to subsidise farmers, but actually hurts them," 12 July 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, "Virginie Viard, Karl Lagerfeld's Secret Weapon, Succeeds Him at Chanel," 19 Feb. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'fiendish.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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fiendish
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