Antonyms for fiendishness


Grammar : Noun
Spell : feen-dish
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfin dɪʃ


Definition of fiendishness

Origin :
  • 1520s, from fiend + -ish. Related: Fiendishly; fiendishness.
  • As in atrocity : noun outrageous behavior
  • As in savagery : noun cruelty
  • As in truculence : noun cruelty
  • As in truculency : noun cruelty
  • As in cruelty : noun brutality, harshness
Example sentences :
  • Try to fancy what new kind of fiendishness must lie in her heart!
  • Extract from : « King Midas » by Upton Sinclair
  • There was a fiendishness in his manner that was absolutely repulsive.
  • Extract from : « The One-Way Trail » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • A calm and dignified silence is the best answer to the fiendishness of thirteen.
  • Extract from : « Macleod of Dare » by William Black
  • A great deal of the fiendishness of schoolboys and the cruelty of children to their elders is produced just in this way.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
  • The fiendishness of his expression vanished like lightning, and he lounged out of the cafe with a moody, impassive face.
  • Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad
  • There was fiendishness everywhere, cruelty married to mania, in which Germany joined.
  • Extract from : « Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern » by Edgar Saltus
  • It is justly considered an act of bad faith, of infamy or fiendishness, to deceive the enemy by flags of protection.
  • Extract from : « International Law » by George Grafton Wilson and George Fox Tucker
  • O when shall war be recognized in its brutality and fiendishness and hellish horrors?
  • Extract from : « National Character » by N. C. Burt
  • He was a Negro, and with a fiendishness that was worse than that of cannibals they beat his life out.
  • Extract from : « Mob Rule in New Orleans » by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Synonyms for fiendishness

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