archfiend

Example Sentences

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A year later, it’s time for audiences to render their own verdict on “Suicide Squad,” the next entry in Warner Bros.’ film series based on DC Comics characters, which makes vicious felons of its all-star cast, including Mr. Smith as a coldblooded mercenary named Deadshot, Jared Leto as the cackling archfiend the Joker and Ms. Robbie as his murderous partner Harley Quinn.

From New York Times

I was reading Frankenstein recently in preparation for a seminar when I came across this: “I, like the archfiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.”

From Seattle Times

The Archfiend is by turns genteel, seductive, ominous, despairing and cranky as channeled by Kyd, who adapted the script from a centuries-spanning body of texts.

From Washington Post

A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.

From Project Gutenberg

Well, indeed, Hughie, 'tis neither the angel nor the archfiend here now, nor for me any struggle except the struggle to both live an' eat well—ho! ho! an' eat well, I say—in Bala.

From Project Gutenberg