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viperishness

viperishness noun: the quality of being viperish.

Noun

viperishness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being viperish.
    • 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.2000 July 7, Roberta Smith, “ART IN REVIEW; Weegee”, in The New York Times

Origin of viperishness

From viperish + -ness.

Questions about viperishness

What does viperishness mean?
Viperishness means the quality of being viperish.
What part of speech is viperishness?
Viperishness is a noun.

Words near viperishness in the dictionary

  1. viperine
  2. viperines
  3. viperins
  4. viperish
  5. viperishly
  6. viperishness
  7. viperlike
  8. viperling
  9. viperlings
  10. viperoid
  11. viperous

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