fiend
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“The fiend has no head,” Knight commented in his review.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
Ryker was a hockey fiend at about a year old, watching 6 a.m.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
At the time, one critic from The Times of London suggested that “some fiend had been laying siege to Sir Joshua’s taste.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
In the play, King Henry laments the cardinal - his great uncle's - death, saying: 'O! beat away the busy, meddling fiend that lays siege unto this wretch's soul'.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2023
That is, if I survive the attack of the murderous fiend who is lurking behind men’s dress shirts, sizes 15 1/2 to 17, to my right.
From "The Misfits" by James Howe
I left the theater feeling giddily put through the wringer by its contrarian depictions of heroes and fiends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
The good news for summer fiends: The region is expected to warm up next week on Thursday and Friday.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
Lillian and her late husband, Frank, were absolute fiends for efficiency.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023
Sixty years ago in March 1963, Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror movie "The Birds" introduced viewers to a small seaside town in California that is suddenly and inexplicably attacked by ferocious feathered fiends.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2023
The other fiends seemed to shrink from her.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
Vocabulary lists containing fiend
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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