Definition of Fiend

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Definition of Fiend
	Fiend An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon. Related Definitions: An, Applied, Being, Cruel, Demon, Devil, Foe, Implacable, Infernal, Is, Malicious, One, Or, Specifically, The, To, Who, Wicked

Fiend Quotations

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Erich Fromm

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Robertson Davies

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
Frank Harris

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
Hugh Miller

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.
Margaret Walker

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
Gus Van Sant

Fiend Translations

fiend in German is Feind, Teufel
fiend in Norwegian is djevel

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