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View synonyms for viperous

viperous

[ vahy-per-uhs ]

adjective

  1. of the nature of or resembling a viper:

    a viperous movement.

  2. of or relating to vipers.
  3. characteristic of vipers.


viperous

/ ˈvaɪpərəs /

adjective

  1. Alsoviperineˈvaɪpəˌraɪn of, relating to, or resembling a viper
  2. malicious
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈviperously, adverb
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Other Words From

  • viper·ous·ly adverb
  • pseudo·viper·ous adjective
  • pseudo·viper·ous·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of viperous1

First recorded in 1525–35; viper + -ous
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Example Sentences

As Agnes, Katigbak delivers a measured prattle, her negging neither as viperous nor as offhand as Albee’s text gives the character license to be.

Alec Baldwin appears as the viperous Blake, a hot shot from the home office who schleps down to the Sheepshead Bay branch to lead a sales meeting that amounts to eight straight minutes of vicious verbal abuse.

Artists foreign and domestic have been depicting the war here head-on since the origins of the fighting actually began eight years ago — in the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s viperous satire “Donbass,” in Serhiy Zhadan’s raw novel “The Orphanage,” or in the Polish photographer Wiktoria Wojciechowska’s profound, prize-drenched war series “Sparks.”

As compensation, we might get the deliciously viperous instead, just for the engaging fun of it, but there too the current roster is not delivering.

I was particularly disappointed by Tatiana Maslany, as the viperous young exec Diana Christensen, who would sell her soul for ratings if only she had one to begin with.

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