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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fiendish \Fiend"ish\, adjective Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish. -- {Fiend"ish*ly}, adverb -- {Fiend"ish*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fiendish
adjective: extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces" [syn: {demonic}, {diabolic}, {diabolical}, {hellish}, {infernal}, {satanic}, {unholy}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "fiendish": Draconian, Mephistophelian, Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, bad, baleful, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, cruel-hearted, cursed, damnable, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, demonish, demonlike, devil-like, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, evil, execrable, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendlike, fierce, ghoulish, heinous, hellborn, hellish, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, monstrous, murderous, ogreish, outrageous, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, serpentine, sharkish, sinister, slavering, subhuman, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, ungodly, unhallowed, unhuman, vicious, wicked, wolfish
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