"fiendishly" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1884, Eliza R[oxcy] Snow Smith, chapter XXV, in Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow, One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Ut.: Deseret News Company, printers, →OCLC, page 190",
          "text": "[…] I was suddenly awakened by a savage looking fellow standing close to my bedside, ordering me and my companion to leave our bed forthwith or suffer the consequences; at the same time using the most blasphemous language, and uttering the most hideous oaths imaginable, while fiendishly striking his huge fists in close proximity to my face.",
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          "text": "The terrible spectacle drove for the instant all thought of rebellion from my mind. My very blood froze in my veins and I stood motionless. I heard Hassim laugh grimly behind me. The eyes in the cadaverous face blazed fiendishly at me and I blanched from the concentrated satanic fury in them.",
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          "code": "da",
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          "sense": "in a fiendish manner",
          "word": "djævelsk"
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "in a fiendish manner",
          "word": "duivels"
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
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          "sense": "in a fiendish manner",
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "in a fiendish manner",
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "sasṭiḳad",
          "sense": "in a fiendish manner",
          "word": "სასტიკად"
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          "sense": "in a fiendish manner",
          "word": "ördögien"
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "in a fiendish manner",
          "word": "diabolicamente"
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "in a fiendish manner",
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          "text": "Either the Russians are so fiendishly clever that they've managed to keep one of their agents running in this organization for over twenty years or they're so fiendishly clever that they're sending us false defectors to claim that they have.",
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          "ref": "2015, Samer Nashef, The Naked Surgeon: The Power and Peril of Transparency in Medicine, Melbourne, Vic.: Scribe",
          "text": "In this operation, veins or arteries are taken from various body parts and used to bypass blockages or narrowings in the coronary arteries, those fine, fiddly, yet fiendishly important vital suppliers to the heart muscle itself.",
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          "ref": "2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-03-05",
          "text": "Balancing horror and comedy is fiendishly difficult. The two rarely work well together, which is why the successes become so lauded (Evil Dead 2, An American Werewolf In London, Dead Alive).",
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          "ref": "2023 November 6, Matt Reynolds, “The World's Broken Food System Costs $12.7 Trillion a Year”, in Wired",
          "text": "These cross-border value calculations can get fiendishly complicated, says Jack Bobo, director of the University of Nottingham’s Food Systems Institute. Take the EU’s Farm-to -Fork Strategy, which aims to—among other things—ensure that a quarter of Europe’s farmland is organic and reduce fertilizer use by at least 20 percent by 2030. Hitting these goals will probably reduce environmental hidden costs in Europe, but it’s likely it will also end up reducing the overall productivity of European farms.",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "devilishly"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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          "text": "The terrible spectacle drove for the instant all thought of rebellion from my mind. My very blood froze in my veins and I stood motionless. I heard Hassim laugh grimly behind me. The eyes in the cadaverous face blazed fiendishly at me and I blanched from the concentrated satanic fury in them.",
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          "text": "These cross-border value calculations can get fiendishly complicated, says Jack Bobo, director of the University of Nottingham’s Food Systems Institute. Take the EU’s Farm-to -Fork Strategy, which aims to—among other things—ensure that a quarter of Europe’s farmland is organic and reduce fertilizer use by at least 20 percent by 2030. Hitting these goals will probably reduce environmental hidden costs in Europe, but it’s likely it will also end up reducing the overall productivity of European farms.",
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "in a fiendish manner",
      "word": "djævelsk"
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      "sense": "in a fiendish manner",
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      "sense": "in a fiendish manner",
      "word": "hels"
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      "sense": "in a fiendish manner",
      "word": "diablement"
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      "roman": "sasṭiḳad",
      "sense": "in a fiendish manner",
      "word": "სასტიკად"
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      "sense": "in a fiendish manner",
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