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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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