Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chief fiend; specifically, the devil.
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Examples
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So was Constantine, the arch-fiend, the devil's right hand.
Chapter 12 2010
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But it had like its eponymous arch-fiend the power to haunt.
Howard A. Rodman: A Spectre is Haunting Los Angeles: Fantômas at the Hammer Museum Howard A. Rodman 2011
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But it had like its eponymous arch-fiend the power to haunt.
Howard A. Rodman: A Spectre is Haunting Los Angeles: Fantômas at the Hammer Museum Howard A. Rodman 2011
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A conspiracy organised not by a single scheming arch-fiend, but collectively by the British establishment – judges, lawyers, politicians, police chiefs, secret services, even newspaper editors – all of whom have been appointed to their positions because they are "a safe pair of hands".
Unlawful Killing – the film the British won't get to see | Keith Allen 2011
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The popular, but by comparison often inane, companion piece Rizzoli & Isles (10/9c) ends its summer run with the return of arch-fiend Charles Hoyt (the slithery Michael Massee), who says he has info on a jailhouse murder.
Matt's Guide to the TV Week: Closer Finale, CW and NBC Premieres, and More 2011
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All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment: I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me; and, finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.
Chapter 16 2010
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And that can only mean we are up against the arch-fiend . . .
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What is your personal worst case scenario for this arch-fiend?
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It has kept my ancestors fed during good times and bad, especially during the dark days when the Republicans sought to oppress the American constitution at the instigation of the arch-fiend Republican Abraham Lincoln.
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Or have we invented an arch-fiend to accommodate a pop-culture figure whose agent got him on the show?
asativum commented on the word arch-fiend
Also, an interjection in the American South. As in, "Aright, let's git 'er done."
April 14, 2008
asativum commented on the word arch-fiend
Hm. That comment was supposed to go on aright, which I got to from the random word list. Bug?
April 15, 2008