arch-fiend

So was Constantine, the arch-fiend, the devil's right hand.

Chapter 12 2010

But it had like its eponymous arch-fiend the power to haunt.

Howard A. Rodman: A Spectre is Haunting Los Angeles: Fantômas at the Hammer Museum Howard A. Rodman 2011

But it had like its eponymous arch-fiend the power to haunt.

Howard A. Rodman: A Spectre is Haunting Los Angeles: Fantômas at the Hammer Museum Howard A. Rodman 2011

A conspiracy organised not by a single scheming arch-fiend, but collectively by the British establishment – judges, lawyers, politicians, police chiefs, secret services, even newspaper editors – all of whom have been appointed to their positions because they are "a safe pair of hands".

Unlawful Killing – the film the British won't get to see | Keith Allen 2011

The popular, but by comparison often inane, companion piece Rizzoli & Isles (10/9c) ends its summer run with the return of arch-fiend Charles Hoyt (the slithery Michael Massee), who says he has info on a jailhouse murder.

Matt's Guide to the TV Week: Closer Finale, CW and NBC Premieres, and More 2011

All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment: I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me; and, finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.

Chapter 16 2010

And that can only mean we are up against the arch-fiend . . .

Wed. Ugh. Feb. Ten. – The Bleat. 2010

What is your personal worst case scenario for this arch-fiend?

Conrad Black, Mastermind of Crime 2008

It has kept my ancestors fed during good times and bad, especially during the dark days when the Republicans sought to oppress the American constitution at the instigation of the arch-fiend Republican Abraham Lincoln.

Lorraine Sommerfeld is a big meanie 2008

Or have we invented an arch-fiend to accommodate a pop-culture figure whose agent got him on the show?

Wed. Ugh. Feb. Ten. – The Bleat. 2010