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viperishness

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English

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Etymology

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From viperish +‎ -ness.

Noun

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viperishness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being viperish.
    • 2000 July 7, Roberta Smith, “ART IN REVIEW; Weegee”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      Elizabeth Taylor, young, beautiful, bare-shouldered and photographed through the kaleidoscope-covered lens while eating from a fork, is multiplied and reversed into a creature of exquisite Pre-Raphaelite viperishness, a ravishing, ravaging Medusa.
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