fiend
/ˈfiːnd/ noun C1- A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.
- A very evil person.
- An addict or fanatic. · dope fiend· He's been a jazz fiend since his teenage years.
Plural fiends
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“You fiend!” he kept on muttering.
“You clever, clever fiend!”
“You cunning, cunning fiend!” was all that he could say.
Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead but sleeping, and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes’s ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes.
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