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: a person extremely devoted to a pursuit or study : fanatic
a golf fiend
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: addict sense 1
a dope fiend
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: wizard sense 2
a fiend at mathematics
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Examples of fiend in a Sentence
His hands were trembling, actually trembling, as if he were some sort of coffee fiend or something.
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T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Road to Wellville, 1993
Wodehouse may not have liked Dickens, but he certainly read him. He read like a fiend.
—Christopher Hitchens, Times Literary Supplement, 7-13 Sept. 1990
The shameless effrontery of the fiend, at the café, pretending to forget all he had done to her, begging to take up with her again, as if nothing had happened between them a dozen years ago.
—Irving Wallace, The Plot, 1967
a fiend in human form
He's a real golf fiend.
T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Road to Wellville, 1993
Wodehouse may not have liked Dickens, but he certainly read him. He read like a fiend.
—Christopher Hitchens, Times Literary Supplement, 7-13 Sept. 1990
The shameless effrontery of the fiend, at the café, pretending to forget all he had done to her, begging to take up with her again, as if nothing had happened between them a dozen years ago.
—Irving Wallace, The Plot, 1967
a fiend in human form
He's a real golf fiend.
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The impertinence of the Kodak fiend has become a vast, invisible apparatus of computation that is perpetually grinding data from the grist of our daily affairs, and exploiting such information for all sorts of ends.
—Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
When not writing, Maggie is a wine enthusiast, a travel junkie and a romance reading fiend.
—Tiara Allen, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
Scott Weiland was a notorious dope fiend, but managed to separate his art from his extracurricular pursuits.
—Henry Everingham, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2024
While caveats abound—Harbaugh is a fiend for the running game, and Herbert’s been gimpy since suffering a high-ankle sprain in Week 2—the whiplash change of tactics is still pretty remarkable.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 Sep. 2024
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Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
When not writing, Maggie is a wine enthusiast, a travel junkie and a romance reading fiend.
—Tiara Allen, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
Scott Weiland was a notorious dope fiend, but managed to separate his art from his extracurricular pursuits.
—Henry Everingham, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2024
While caveats abound—Harbaugh is a fiend for the running game, and Herbert’s been gimpy since suffering a high-ankle sprain in Week 2—the whiplash change of tactics is still pretty remarkable.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 Sep. 2024
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“Fiend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiend. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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fiend
noun1
2
: an extremely wicked or cruel person
3
a
: a person enthusiastically devoted to something
fiendish
adjective
ˈfēn-dish
fiendishly
adverb
fiendishness
noun
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