fiendish

What fiendishness went on in the kitchens across the country, in the name of providing food!

With no information about how the success had been achieved, the public took the news as undeniable proof that Nazi fiendishness was no match for American G-men." (6)

"The logic of the case," writes De Quincey, "all rested upon the ultra fiendishness of Williams." Nevertheless, though the text portrays him as "finical" in committing murders of "pure voluptuousness, entirely disinterested," and though the footnote ascribes to him a purity of intent (13:110), this "most aristocratic and fastidious of artists" betrays himself by allowing declasse prospects of financial gain to weaken his imputed agency as "a domestic Attila" (13:79, 75).

Now there's a perverse moral consistency wedded to his fiendishness.

The collected fiendishness of Frankenstein, Dracula, Freddy, Chucky, the Mummy, Norman Bates's mommy, and Rosemary's baby cannot hold a candle to the terror wrought by an insecure actor, a monomaniacal director, or a stalking camera.

Leslie's Weekly printed that both "Indians" and Chinese possessed an "unadulterated fiendishness." See "The Cruelty of the Chinese" (July 28, 1900).

What reception would one of our black soldiers get if he were to lecture on the fiendishness of burnings in the South?

There was no wind to blame this time, just the fiendishness of the design.

"The fiendishness of it all is that part of this mass deception is open and voluntary, letting people think they can draw the line between fiction and fact" (120).

The clank of a starting tank, the scream of a shell through the air, the ever-rising whine of fiendishness as a bomber dives....