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  • In a fiendish manner.

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  • adverb In a fiendish manner

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  • adverb as a devil; in an evil manner

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Examples

  • Four times he raised his voice, four times a cry of indignation drowned his words, and at length, seeing that he could obtain no farther hearing, he resumed his seat with an expression fiendishly malignant, and a fierce imprecation on Rome, and all that it contained.

    The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832

  • What we've been looking at in all this mess is some kind of fiendishly subtle manufacturing error.

    Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

  • Further muddying the picture, the spread of radiation has been fiendishly unpredictable, skipping some areas and showing up in concentrated hot spots elsewhere.

    Murky Science Clouded Japan Nuclear Response Yuka Hayashi 2011

  • Sure, there's a lot of research showing that calories overall are what matters but there's also a lot of research -- and clinical experience -- that shows that high carb high sugar diets produce metabolic reactions that make it fiendishly difficult to lose weight by contributing to cravings and blood sugar fluctuations.

    Dr. Jonny Bowden: Dietary Guidelines 2010: Not Much to Write Home About Dr. Jonny Bowden 2011

  • It was a “Faustian bargain,” wrote one journalist, a “fiendishly complicated scheme,” in which the young liberal ministers sold their souls to a cabal of unscrupulous tycoons.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • His iron-man work ethic has produced more than 80 films since 1991, ranging from serialized crime dramas to fiendishly sophisticated entertainment for children, costume Westerns to contemporary folk tales.

    Extremes on Screen Steve Dollar 2011

  • Sure, there's a lot of research showing that calories overall are what matters but there's also a lot of research -- and clinical experience -- that shows that high carb high sugar diets produce metabolic reactions that make it fiendishly difficult to lose weight by contributing to cravings and blood sugar fluctuations.

    Dr. Jonny Bowden: Dietary Guidelines 2010: Not Much to Write Home About Dr. Jonny Bowden 2011

  • Sure, there's a lot of research showing that calories overall are what matters but there's also a lot of research -- and clinical experience -- that shows that high carb high sugar diets produce metabolic reactions that make it fiendishly difficult to lose weight by contributing to cravings and blood sugar fluctuations.

    Dr. Jonny Bowden: Dietary Guidelines 2010: Not Much to Write Home About Dr. Jonny Bowden 2011

  • Sure, there's a lot of research showing that calories overall are what matters but there's also a lot of research -- and clinical experience -- that shows that high carb high sugar diets produce metabolic reactions that make it fiendishly difficult to lose weight by contributing to cravings and blood sugar fluctuations.

    Dr. Jonny Bowden: Dietary Guidelines 2010: Not Much to Write Home About Dr. Jonny Bowden 2011

  • I fiendishly love it, which is definitely a function of my mother's loving salads, too; we've always been green heads.

    Food-World Royalty 2011

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