(a.) Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.
(a.) Extreme; excessive.
Example Sentences:
(1) He warned of the “devilish” intentions of the US, even as he reaffirmed his support for Iran’s negotiating team.
(2) She says she saw the girls' "devilish twitching" and "committing impudences".
(3) eneath the jokes, the headline fodder, the superstitions and devilish charm, there is another side to Cellino.
(4) Robbie Brady breezed past the right-back Emre Can to send a devilish cross into the six-yard box and Mignolet punched the ball out as far as Jake Livermore.
(5) Yet there the four sat piously deploring "complexity" in a tax system that keeps adding volumes to the code just to chase down their devilish loopholes.
(6) We are doing all we can to bring Peter Greste home.” The prosecution closed its case in Cairo on Thursday, accusing the three journalists of making a “devilish pact” with the Muslim Brotherhood, who were ousted from power by the Egyptian military in July 2013.
(7) Perhaps this devilish bait-and-switch enables us to understand better what political talk of “aspirations” for the masses really mean.
(8) Since then, in truth it has been a bit of a slog with consistency devilishly hard to come by.
(9) Their debut full-length, Hell on Heels , found them giving voice to third-generation bartenders, drug-addicted housewives and devilish gold-diggers.
(10) And you sense that if you put so much as a full stop in the wrong place, some devilish voice from hell will exclaim ' Muahaha....we got you ! '
(11) 3.08pm BST 8 min: This time City work the ball cleverly on the left, Kolarov playing a neat one-two with Toure and fizzing a devilish low ball into the six-yard box.
(12) Recorded at the new Paisley Park studio he had built in 1986 on the outskirts of Minneapolis, Sign was devilishly eclectic, travelling from the doom-saying title track - an unsettling mix of hypnotic electro rhythm, bluesy guitar and fragile, semi-rapped lyric - to the Philly rhapsody of 'Adore' via the frantic power pop of 'I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man'.
(13) But that was the least of the pain inflicted on Brunt by Zaha, whose speed and devilish dribbling tormented the left-back from start to finish.
(14) Devilishly cunning new legislation in 19 key US states, designed to place obstacles between voters and the ballot boxes most likely to affect those who vote Democrat, may eventually swing it for the Republicans.
(15) Stylish, devilishly expensive – the perfect bag in which to carry around statistics about third world debt.
(16) Two years later came The Destroying Angel – a much darker piece, based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe; a nightmarish series of encounters for a young seminarian with a devilish character and magic mushrooms.
(17) What if by some devilish miracle the great 1920s iconoclast H.L.
(18) Like every other globally traded commodity foodstuff, quinoa is devilishly complicated and prone to tragedy.
(19) Howard had to leave his line to block Dembélé early on, after Sylvain Distin's loose back pass and Rose's run and devilish cross nearly found Adebayor.
(20) What also gets overlooked sometimes is the devilish way they work to get the ball back when they lose it.
Fiendish
Definition:
(a.) Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.
Example Sentences:
(1) By recklessly raising the military stakes in the Syrian cauldron, by acting unilaterally and without any manner of UN or collective mandate, by threatening to send aircraft into areas where American, Turkish and other anti-Isis forces are operating, Putin risks further complicating an already fiendishly complicated conflict.
(2) We're moving from one highly complex system – the renewable obligation – to something even more fiendishly complex."
(3) China's first stretch of railway track was built by a British firm in 1876, but soon dismantled on the orders of Chinese imperial officials who regarded it as a fiendish foreign invention.
(4) With stylish monochrome graphics and frequently fiendish puzzles, it's a rewarding and original adventure.
(5) There's plenty of culture too, with the Royal Danish Ballet and the Royal Opera staging an impressively varied programme of events that people like us, who have failed miserably to grasp the fiendishly complicated language, can still enjoy.
(6) Then there was the day Brydon had to eat a stuffed onion while nursing a fiendish hangover.
(7) The QM, so named because the late Queen Mother apparently used to have two before lunch, is a fiendish mix.
(8) Traders are "fiendish", "predators", hell-bent on stealing from the "decent, hard-working folk" to line their own pockets without an ounce of remorse.
(9) 11.18am BST This quiz from John Ashdown is fiendish .
(10) Politics and economics Getting 194 nations to agree on anything, let alone a re-tooling of the global energy system that drives economies, is fiendish.
(11) Looking ahead, how will HMRC, so weak at company tax collection, bring in the fiendishly complex universal credit without chaos?
(12) This is fiendishly difficult to get right, and efforts to calculate this figure began, like so many mathematical techniques, as a matter of marginal, somewhat nerdish interest during the 1930s.
(13) In 2013, the plan to introduce universal credit, which has been described as involving “fiendishly complicated calculations” had to be “reset to zero”, after more than £600m had been spent.
(14) But it's fiendishly complex to work out what you're entitled to and how you can boost it.
(15) Pogba’s athleticism and high-kneed running style makes him a fiendishly difficult opponent and, if anything, he needs some of the players around him to raise their own level of performance.
(16) But the most important factor was the misconception that computing was essentially about products – hardware and software – that were fiendishly expensive and required endless updating, maintenance and policing.
(17) The Chinese have a script so fiendishly complicated that they cannot produce a proper keyboard for it.
(18) The jury is out on whether Cameron will win his fight to get a fiendishly complicated renegotiation of the Lisbon treaty, with the aim of securing new British terms of EU membership that would then be put to a referendum in 2017 if Cameron wins a second term in 2015.
(19) For fiendish ingenuity, however, Facebook's latest move into the mobile phone business takes the biscuit.
(20) Cameron and his successor (that is, the Conservative leader who will fight the 2020 election) require a Labour leader plausible enough to compel Tory backbench discipline in the fiendishly difficult European negotiations ahead , and the referendum itself.