viperish

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English

Etymology

From viper +‎ -ish.

Adjective

viperish (comparative more viperish, superlative most viperish)

  1. In the manner of a viper.
  2. spiteful; treacherous
    • 2023 April 10, Jesse Green, “Review: ‘White Girl in Danger’ Flips the Script on Soap Operas”, in The New York Times:
      Allwhite is dominated, of course, by its white characters: the high-school mean girls Meagan, Maegan and Megan (abused, bulimic, druggy), their mothers (smothering, manipulative, viperish) and their boyfriends (psychotic, supportive, dissolute).

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