fiendishly

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Imelda Marcos’ fetish for fiendishly expensive shoes was a running gag in the 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 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 were not large or fierce, like the bears and tigers that roamed the mountains, but they were known to be fiendishly clever.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park