Is fiend a bad word?

Informal. a person who is extremely addicted to some pernicious habit: an opium fiend. Informal. a person who is excessively interested in some game, sport, etc.; fan; buff: a bridge fiend.

A very evil person. (obsolete) An enemy; a foe. Religion teaches us to love everybody, be one fiend or friend.

Resembling a fiend: maliciously wicked; diabolical.

They may try to steal your soul, or perhaps just want to hurt your feelings. Either way, fiends never mean you well. The Old English root word for fiend translates to “an enemy, the devil, a demon”: three cruel characters that would delight in causing you harm. Watch out for fiends like them.

fiend. an evil supernatural being. I drink them like a fiend, and going for five days without one was about to kill me.

friend used as a verb: to act as the friend of. to add a person to a list of associates of one’s social networking site.

a person who is highly skilled or gifted in something: a fiend at languages. SEE MORE. Also feen [feen] . Slang. to desire greatly: just another junkie fiending after his next hit;As soon as I finish a cigarette I’m fiending to light another.

Correct pronunciation for the word “Feine” is [fˈe͡ɪn], [fˈe‍ɪn], [f_ˈeɪ_n].

“A fiend-like queen” is the portrayal of an evil and demon-like individual, in this instance addressed to Lady Macbeth. The portrayal of a ‘fiend-like queen’ seems more accurate when focused on Lady Macbeth, as she introduces the evil and fuels the ambition that leads Macbeth to his downfall.

1. The fiend stole money from the little boys who were raising money for the Cancer Society.
2. Because Jill is dating a fiend, she should not be shocked if she has to bail him out of jail one day.
3. The fiend was caught trying to sneak into a little girl’s bedroom in the middle of the night.

a person addicted to drugs.

Fiend at first described any hostile enemy (male and female, with abstract noun form feondscipe “fiendship”), but it began to be used in late Old English for “the Devil, Satan” (literally “adversary”) as the “enemy of mankind,” which shifted its sense to “diabolical person” (early 13c.).

Looking at the word ‘friend’ in English, it is derived from the Old English word ‘freond’ which meant to love or to favour. This is similar to Italian, Spanish and Portugese that their word for friend is also derived from the verb, to love.

The short answer, according to Oxford Dictionaries online, is that the word “gaol” was “originally pronounced with a hard g, as in goat.” Here’s a fuller answer. “Etymologically, a jail is a ‘little cage,’ ” John Ayto says in his Dictionary of Word Origins.

One line in the poem reads, “Nothing gold can stay,” meaning that all good things must come to an end. By the end of the novel, the boys apply this idea to youthful innocence, believing that they cannot remain forever unsullied by the harsh realities of life. Here, Johnny urges Ponyboy to remain gold, or innocent.

Johnny idolizes gang member Dallas Winston. Dally is living proof that one can survive without parents or family. Johnny needs to follow in the footsteps of someone in his life and Dally, his hero, is the one he chooses. The relationship between these two boys is very interdependent.

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‘Friendly’ is most commonly used as an adjective. Adjectives describe nouns or pronouns.

Worthy, capable, or deserving of friendship; friendable.

It dates to the early 13th century. Yes. Which would make that seemingly contemporary usage, the action-based use of “friend” made newly famous by Facebook, at least 800 years old.

Feen is valid Scrabble Word.

1. A phene is an individual genetically determined characteristic or trait which can be possessed by an organism, such as eye colour, height, behavior, tooth shape or any other observable characteristic.
2. The term ‘phene’ was evidently coined as an obvious parallel construct to ‘gene’.

If the other person wants to talk about something and you do not, then you can sometimes shorten the conversation (or even kill it stone dead) by pretending that you know little or nothing about the subject. This is particularly useful when they are seeking information from you.

No, feine is not in the scrabble dictionary.

If someone feigns a particular feeling, attitude, or physical condition, they try to make other people think that they have it or are experiencing it, although this is not true.

Lady Macbeth has weaknesses which are hidden by a strong exterior. Her ambitions overpower her worries and doubts about behaving and acting in a diabolical way. This makes her initially seem evil or “fiend-like”.

Lady Macbeth the Fiend. … Lady Macbeth almost revels in cruelty and despises her husband Macbeth for being too soft and compassionate, but she knows she can rule him. When Macbeth looks like backing out of the murder of Duncan, Lady Macbeth bullies him into submission. But she does not commit the murder herself.

He is no longer the passionate partner from the beginning of the play. The fact that she committed suicide makes her even less a fiend because it was done out of remorse, guilt, or both.

Drug: Acetaminophen and Propoxyphene Napsylate.

Someone who is obsessed or crazed in their obsession with drugs and/or drug use.