fiendishly
adv/ˈfiːndɪʃli/US
Etymology
Definitions
In a fiendish manner
In a fiendish manner; evilly, wickedly.
- At a side door, reclined on a couch, two guards of the haram, with their naked swords grasped in their hands, and features, fiendishly contorted between sleep and dissolution, seemed to menace death to any who should venture to approach.
- It was hot there too; big flies buzzed fiendishly, and did not sting, but stabbed.
Extremely, very in harsh or negative contexts.
- In this operation, veins or arteries are taken from various body parts and used to bypass blockages or narrowings in the coronary arteries, those fine, fiddly, yet fiendishly important vital suppliers to the heart muscle itself.
- Balancing horror and comedy is fiendishly difficult. The two rarely work well together, which is why the successes become so lauded (Evil Dead 2, An American Werewolf In London, Dead Alive).
The neighborhood
- synonymdevilishly
- synonymdiabolically
- neighborfiend
- neighborfiendish
- neighborfiendishness
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fiendishly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA