fiendishly

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Mays’ portrayal — I can’t imagine anyone topping his interpretation of the character — is fiendishly complex.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

One of the paradoxes of songwriting is that it can be fiendishly difficult to craft something that sounds effortlessly simple.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

After “The Dark Knight,” the Marvel Cinematic Universe slowly, fiendishly consumed the superhero genre, making it the superhero industrial complex.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2025

Rather than recycling standardized test questions, organizers paid leading math experts a few hundred dollars to concoct fiendishly difficult, original problems across a broad range of fields.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2024

They’d all been prodded and tested, examined inside and out, and given fiendishly difficult tasks such as solving math problems while wearing headphones through which a friendly voice whispered incorrect answers.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin