The word "fiend" is considered correct and usable in written English and is defined as "a very evil or cruel person." For example, you can use the sentence, "The criminal was thought to be a fiend, with a reputation for deviousness and cruelty."
That may be largely because Brown, as well as being a reluctant speed fiend, does not much like talking about or promoting his efforts.
Solution C was salt water, which explains why I, a salt fiend, was so happy quaffing it.
The battle of Bitterroot Style and substance The jock-in-chief Correction: the SEIU ReprintsMr Bush is a sports-fan as well as an exercise fiend.
Because Mr Castro has been painted as a fiend by powerful congressmen and Florida voters, President Clinton could not resist passing the Helms-Burton law three years ago.
He even defied a national trend by changing his mind in favour of the death penalty.He continues to sell himself as a "deficit hawk" and "balanced budget fiend" (the Bush fiscal policy, he says, is modelled on Argentina's).
Mr Knausgaard smokes like a fiend in his garden study (though not in his impeccably tidy house) and keeps an electric guitar and a drum kit next to his desk.
They might like him even more if they knew an obscure but intriguing fact about him: he actually practises what he preaches.In this section Looking for someone to blame End of a fantasy Testing times Unexpected consequences Some justice at last Lock and load Who isn't coming for dinner ReprintsMr Perry, a young-looking 61, is a fitness fiend.
The author's vivid descriptions of Hell and of the fearful state of mind of his merciless hero, as well as his creation of the savage, embittered, yet remorseful fiend Mephistopheles were so realistic that they inspired a certain terror in the reader.
The Peckham Glossary *Sket: Prostitute *To rush: To attack as a gang *To have a 'ting' / to beat: Have sex *To chop someone: To kill them *To bung up/to box: To beat up *I feel him: I like him *To wet someone: To stab *Brethren: Fellow gang members *Da fiend: Drug addict *Duppy: Harm.
Jo is a second year English student at the University of York, leftie student journalist and pop-culture fiend.
Ben Whishaw's Danny was sure his boyfriend was bumped off and framed as a masochistic sex fiend.
