fiend

Example Sentences

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“The fiend has no head,” Knight commented in his review.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

It telegraphs that Abigail is no barbaric horror fiend but instead a sophisticated aesthete, which makes her both scarier and funnier.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2024

The narrative rewinds by years, days, hours and occasionally seconds, portraying the Captain's memory as a fickle fiend that equally protects him and exposes his fraud.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2024

Ryker was a hockey fiend at about a year old, watching 6 a.m.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

It seemed that the fiend had moved on.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith