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Recent Examples of viperish
For instance, Queen Elizabeth (Heather Alicia Simms) and ex-queen Margaret (a scene-stealing Sharon Washington) are tart and viperish with each other, wonderful at torquing Shakespeare’s iambs to sound utterly contemporary.
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Helen Shaw, Vulture, 11 July 2022
The progress of their romance is complicated by her pregnancy, a shotgun marriage and life under the eye of Ingrid’s snobbish, viperish mother (Thora Hird).
—Stephen Holden, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2017
Helen Shaw, Vulture, 11 July 2022
The progress of their romance is complicated by her pregnancy, a shotgun marriage and life under the eye of Ingrid’s snobbish, viperish mother (Thora Hird).
—Stephen Holden, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for viperish
Adjective
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Those who are diagnosed with the malignant tumor have a median survival rate of about 14 to 14.5 months.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
23 July 2025
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Oates presents the idea of malignant artistic inspiration.—
Heather Scott Partington,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
Adjective
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His otherwise incomparable legacy will forever be stained by his hateful remarks about Black people.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Late in the episode, Cartman calls off his suicide attempt after Butters helps convince him that there’s always hope for a return to the world where Cartman’s hateful trollery will again be a minority voice pushing back against the mainstream.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
24 July 2025
Adjective
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Cybercriminals often scan inactive IP ranges, using them for various malicious activities.—
Vincentas Grinius,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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How the Facebook crypto scam works Bitdefender Labs reports that a malicious ad campaign has been running on Facebook for several months.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In all, both Escobar and Ortega have expressed regret, have promised to prove their growth through their actions, and have also asked virulent fans to stop harassing them and their families.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 July 2025
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But, unfortunately, there will be more as the extraordinarily virulent pathogen continues to tear around the country.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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Coming less than a year after the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the same neighborhood, which was widely regarded as an assassination motivated by contempt for the American health insurance industry, LePatner’s death prompted a similarly vicious response on social media.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
1 Aug. 2025
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Not to mention, antibiotics aren’t always effective at killing drug-resistant bugs, and each UTI leaves you more susceptible to future infections, creating a vicious cycle.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Incidents such as the American pilot Gary Powers’s intercepted U-2 flight over the Soviet Union in 1960 or the Soviet shooting down of the Korean airliner in 1983 tended to be read by the other side as evidence of malign intent.—
MARGARET MACMILLAN,
Foreign Affairs,
21 July 2025
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As events in Eddington rise to national prominence, Aster cuts to a private jet full of antifa goons — the infamous outside agitators — being flown into the town by some malign puppet master.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
18 July 2025
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When they are both haunted by a malevolent spirit of bones and rot, the siblings are forced to reunite and venture deep into the forest to confront their trauma together.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
22 July 2025
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Internet wags have wondered whether Gunn’s kindliness extends to malevolent immigrants like General Zod.—
Armond White,
National Review,
18 July 2025
Adjective
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Stewart’s switch from his usual snark to imitate Colbert’s buffoonery proved how spiteful and irreligious political humor has become since the left’s worship of Barack Obama and subsequent persecution of President Trump.—
Armond White,
National Review,
25 July 2025
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This dramatic change in the law comes a year and a half after a ProPublica investigation showed how the hotline had been weaponized by jealous exes, spiteful landlords and others who endlessly called in baseless allegations.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
20 June 2025
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“Viperish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/viperish. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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