The tabloids are the worst for taking a word and applying it incorrectly for effect
I remember just after those pictures of Kate Moss had been published showing her enjoying a bit of sherbert. A few days later, one redtop referred to her as

Coke Fiend Kate Moss

Fiend? Fucking fiend? Ian Huntley was a fiend, not some supermodel because she has a bit of the white stuff.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 23:21, 3 replies)

You're right.
Ian Huntley was a fiend, not a supermodel.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 23:54, closed)

...heh heh heh...
I actually, in a morbid-humor sort of way, LOVE that word, "fiend," it always reminds me of "REEFER MADNESS!", before it was a campy off-Broadway musical. And if more than 1% of your annual net income goes to "recreational drugs," yeah, you're prolly fucking hooked, and willing to lie, cheat, steal or fuckover ANYBODY to get to the shit. I.E., "fiend."

There are good drugs and there are bad drugs, and the majority of the bad drugs have passed through the trembling hands of George Herbert Walker Bush and the rest of the Eli Lilly board of directors.
(AnntichristSCoulter, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 4:28, closed)

That headline had NOTHING ...
to do with the fact that she had successfully sued said tabloid newspaper. Honest.

And precisely how is a model with a drug habit newsworthy? Did impressionable teenaged girls all over the country read the story and burst into tears shouting "I thought she did it with sensible diet and exercise! What a fool I've been!"
(Que?, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 6:52, closed)