Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hostile; inimical.
- Fiend-like; devilish; fiendish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Fiendlike; monstrous; devilish.
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- adjective obsolete
Hostile . - adjective Like a
fiend ;devilish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I cant stand these people and if i find their dogs on that property again i am thinking about shooting them. their dogs are running with no control by their owners and are really starting to piss me off. i have had people try and take my trail cameras earlier this season but i hope that they will get a knock on their door from the fiendly police and see how they handle that.
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So he had slain Colgrevance he ran upon his brother as a fiendly man, and gave him such a stroke that he made him stoop.
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So then Sir Launcelot lift up the tomb, and there came out an horrible and a fiendly dragon, spitting fire out of his mouth.
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Colgrevance he ran upon his brother as a fiendly man, and gave him such a stroke that he made him stoop.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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When he had slain Colgrevance, he ran upon his brother as a fiendly man, and gave him such a stroke that he made him stoop; and he, full of humility, prayed him for God's love to leave this battle.
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" U. Waldo Cutler
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In her fathom the fiendly all under the fell-stream.
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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I have dearly sworn to myself never to reveal to human ears the horrors to which I once, in excess of fiendly pride, delivered myself over.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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And never was greater difference than 'twixt these two, Tressady being a great, wild fellow with a steel hook in place of his left hand, d'ye see, and Bartlemy a slender, dainty-seeming, fiendly-smiling gentleman, very nice as to speech and deportment and clad in the latest mode, from curling periwig to jewelled shoe-buckles.
Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915
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So he had slain Colgrevance he ran upon his brother as a fiendly man, and gave him such a stroke that he made him stoop.
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