What's the difference between fiend and fiendlike?

Fiend


Definition:

  • (n.) An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Punks, poets, painters, dropouts, drug fiends, drag queens - all have been welcome at the Chelsea hotel.
  • (2) As the 10th-century Nine Herbs Charm put it, "finule" defends "against a fiend's hand and against trick, against witchcraft of vile creatures".
  • (3) The service is likely to excite gadget fiends and those hoping to reduce their gas and electricity bills.
  • (4) September 2, 2013 11.48am BST Here's our report on Gareth Bale's medical , during which (if he's anything like the rest of us) he'll have had that awkward internal conversation in which you calculate the number of alcohol units you really consume per week then attempt to come up with a number to tell the doctor that seems a) vaguely realistic, b) not too far from the truth but c) doesn't make you look like the boggle-eyed booze fiend you really are.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest I knew a girl named Nikki I guess you could say she was a sex fiend I met her in a hotel lobby Masturbating with a magazine She said how'd you like to waste some time?
  • (6) McCarley's 1977 arguments for the determining the significance of the pontine dream generator may have been anticipated by McCay's 1905 Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend in which, at the end of each very Freudian nightmare, the dreamer wakes and swears off eating welsh rarebits as if they caused all his unconscious images.
  • (7) Player ratings: Go on, get judging you heartless fiends .
  • (8) Which is why those canny fiends in Fifa refuse to introduce technology, in my opinion.
  • (9) The problems with the cocoa crop in west Africa aren't just a worry for chocolate fiends like me.
  • (10) The Mona Lisa would certainly have been a key target for Nazi art hunters: the ERR, Hitler himself, and the art fiend and Nazi number two, Hermann Göring.
  • (11) Found in both his fiction and his letters, terms such as "posish", "eggs and b", and "f i h s" ("fiend in human shape") create a clubby feeling of intimacy between writer and reader.
  • (12) You wade your way through questions designed by some fiend with a Ph.D in trick questions.
  • (13) London, New York, California, Berlin, Paris 1899-1975 Dear Willyum, Snorkles and Denis, Fiend of me boyhood, here's some dread news.
  • (14) And I was throwing up all the time and I hate throwing up.” Jones says she was never really into cocaine and couldn’t understand how she ended up with a “coke fiend” reputation.
  • (15) "There are people in the street at the moment, people watching this programme, people think Chris Rennard was some sort of sexual fiend like Jimmy Savile.
  • (16) The image of methadone is based on both misinformation about treatment and the user's contrasting of a treatment status with the stereotypic ideal of the "righteous dope fiend."
  • (17) Like King Lear, the president feels the fangs of ingratitude, the marble-hearted fiend, more keenly than anything else.
  • (18) So where can non-consumerist yoga fiends purchase $98 fitness pants now?

Fiendlike


Definition:

  • (a.) Fiendish; diabolical.

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