fiend
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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
Ryker was a hockey fiend at about a year old, watching 6 a.m.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
But "the fiend" eventually disappeared beneath layers of paint and varnish.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2023
But he could not see how one man, however good and strong, dared face the fiend without weapons.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
She can summon a Boarblin, and turn the army of snout-nosed, spear-wielding fiends against itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
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
She said he was "loved immensely by his family and fiends", adding that he was "kind, caring, and always checking up on you".
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2023
Lillian and her late husband, Frank, were absolute fiends for efficiency.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023
“Oh, they were only a collection of fiends, of course. The whole tower turned up-so-down and vanished immediately, and it turned out that they had been fiends all the time, including the priest.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing fiend
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act V
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Beowulf: A New Telling
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