Sarah Weinman

The Cold War was over, presidential sex scandals superseded foreign concerns, and the American public was more interested in reading about fiendish serial killers, dependable mystery series protagonists, and any book thought to be in the vein of Bridget Jones and her abbreviation-happy diary.

American Journalist

Jack Ramsay

Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.

American Coach

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

American Critic

James B. Stewart

The A.M.T. is much reviled by tax experts across the political spectrum for its unintended consequences and fiendish complexity.

Florence King

Optimists don't mind if you eavesdrop on them. They welcome it, in fact, because it helps them spread their fiendish gospel.

American Writer

Michael Leunig

Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.

Australian Cartoonist

Louis Kronenberger

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Fiendish as cruel has a strong negative tone, suggesting inhuman malice or guilt.

Negative Connotation

Use 'fiendish' to invoke strong, dark mental images, supporting a suspenseful mood.

Vivid Imagery

'Fiendish' elevates the intensity of cruelty to extreme levels, often in storytelling.

Intensity Amplifier

'Fiendish' may describe a task requiring a high level of thinking, cleverness, or patience.

Intellectual Challenge

Express frustration with a particularly trying problem by calling it 'fiendish'.

Exasperation Expression

Using 'fiendish' implies that the difficulty should not be underestimated.

Avoid Underestimating

 Puritans believed that the Devil wreaked havoc in the world through human agents, or witches, who blighted nature, conjured fiendish apparitions, and tormented children. As news swept through the village, the symptoms appeared to spread.

What really happened...

 it roams the night bellowing blood-curdling screams in search of dead and dying prey and when it tears into flesh it's with some of the most bone crushing jaws on earth this fiendish