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n. pl. fren·e·mies Informal

[Blend of friend and enemy.]


n, pl -mies
1. a supposed friend who behaves in a treacherous manner
[C20: blend of friend and enemy ]
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Esma, who has previously hit the headlines for being a frenemy to Zarina Hassan, said she doesn't believe her brother and his baby mama have called it quits.
For the most part, however, Alice wreaks havoc, plotting an outrageously cruel revenge against a frenemy and publicly humiliating a former boyfriend.
Vociferous Celebrity once pulled strings to get Wealthy Frenemy in trouble.
The biggest challenge when dealing with them at the workplace is that you will never know where a frenemy is hiding.
It started well, as he exchanged mountain-climbing themed gifts with his new best frenemy, chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier.
Here, assassin Arthur Bishop (a leaner, meaner Jason Statham), living undercover in Brazil, is hunted down by his boyhood frenemy, Crain (Sam Hazeldine), and is ordered to perform three kills.
After making headlines at the 2015 MTV VMA awards on Sunday (August 30), rapper Nicki Minaj "told" frenemy Miley Cyrus to talk to the ass cos the face is busy making its way to Dubai
What are the odds you'd get stuck with your ex-BF and your frenemy in one class?
To his huge credit, JJ Abrams knocks it out of the park in a terrific movie starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto as the new Captain Kirk and his Romulan frenemy, Spock.
Nora Olsen; FRENEMY OF THE PEOPLE; Bold Stroke Books (Children's: Young Adult Fiction) 11.
Yet I was fascinated to discover that sayings I'd mistaken for relatively recent--blurb (1907), frenemy (1953), weapons of mass destruction (1937), wimp (from an 1898 children's book by Evelyn Sharpe)-actually predated me.
Starting with a Harvard degree in '97 (never a bad career move), she has acted in dozens of movies and TV shows, co-created a comic book series called Frenemy of the State, worked as a contributing editor to Teen Vogue, and co-written multiple screenplays.