adjective [usuallybeforenoun]
1 cruel and unpleasant:
a fiendish act / grin * shrieks of fiendish laughter
2 (informal) extremely clever and complicated, often in an unpleasant way:
a puzzle of fiendish complexity * a fiendish plan
3 (informal) extremely difficult:
a fiendish problem
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fiendish is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does fiendish appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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