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Fiendishly

Definition: Fiendishly

Fiendishly

Adverb

1. As a devil; in an evil manner; "his writing could be diabolically satiric".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fiendishly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Synonyms: Fiendishly

Synonyms: devilishly (adv), diabolically (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Fiendishly

Specialty definitions using "fiendishly": block transfer computations. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Fiendishly

DomainTitle

Books

  • Fiendishly Difficult Math Puzzles (reference)

  • Fiendishly Gross Jokes (reference)

  • Fifty Fiendishly Clever Ways to Get Free Advertising (reference)

  • The Prankster's Ultimate Handbook: The World's Most Infamous, Illustrated, Hardcore Guide to Fiendishly Clever Practical Jokery & Much, Much More!! (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Fiendishly

"Fiendishly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fiendishly" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%2865,706

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fiendishly

Language Translations for "fiendishly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

teuflische (devilishness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szörnyen (atrociously, awful, awfully, dreadfully, fearfully, frightfully, hugely, in the extreme, something, terribly), rettenetesen (awful, awfully, bally, hideously, horribly), pokolian (deucedly, devilish), kajánul (malevolently, maliciously, sardonically), irtózatosan (awful, awfully, dreadfully, monstrously), ördögien (devilish). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iendishlyfay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fiendishly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-f-h-i-i-l-n-s-y"

-2 letters: fiendish, finished, fishline, infidels, infields.

-3 letters: densify, fishily, infidel, infield, lindies, shinily, snidely.

-4 letters: dynels, elfins, elfish, felids, fields, fiends, finely, finish, fished, fleshy, indies, inside, linsey, lysine, nidify, nihils, shield, shindy, shined, sileni, yields.

-5 letters: defis, deify, deils, delfs, delis, dines, dishy, dynel, dynes, edify, elfin, felid, fends, field, fiend, filed, files, finds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fiendishly


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 69 65 6E 64 69 73 68 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    ..    .    -.    -..    ..    ...    ....    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100100 01101001 01110011 01101000 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#101 &#110 &#100 &#105 &#115 &#104 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 0065 006E 0064 0069 0073 0068 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40757180707585747891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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