Synonyms:
monster, fiend, devil, demon, ogre
Meaning: a cruel wicked and inhuman person
Synonyms:
devil, fiend, demon, daemon, daimon
Meaning: an evil supernatural being
Usage examples
You fiend!"
What now? Are we all to fall before this English fiend?"
THEN the baleful fiend its fire belched out, and bright homes burned.
"Do you mean danger from this family fiend or do you mean danger from human beings?"
"You are in the wrong," replied the fiend; "and instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you.
The fiery dragon, fearful fiend, with flame was scorched. Reckoned by feet, it was fifty measures in length as it lay.
This mild, amiable, and self-sacrificing Kohen, how was it possible that he should transform himself to a fiend incarnate?
I well remember that my first thought, upon beholding it, was that Retzch, had he viewed it, would have greatly preferred it to his own pictural incarnations of the fiend.
His mind pictured the soldiers who would place their defiant bodies before the spear of the yelling battle fiend, and as he saw their dripping corpses on an imagined field, he said that he was their murderer.
I had resolved in my own mind that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness, and I banished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion.