viperish

All this leads to the million-dollar question: What use is poetry in this viperish world?

No, he just scores for a few good "cats" and "chicks" because he is viperish.

Grace started up angrily from her seat, and fixed her viperish eyes on Mercy.

Entertainment Weekly describes it as "an ingenious and viperish thriller.

His green, viperish tongue flicked over mottled lips.

"Even locally there are nests of viperish disloyalty.

Not that she intended to let Nynaeve know, her and her 'viperish tongue.

It looked viperish.

Nothing else happened for a moment . . . and then he almost fell as the hatch whipped open with viperish suddenness.

In backward centuries when slandering people often involved meeting one's victims in the flesh, there were restraints on the viperish tongue.

Is that fading, viperish supermodel in "Bling" based on Naomi Campbell?

The Mad Prophet observed in viperish satisfaction as he made his way downhill, ill balanced as a man with a gut wound.

After the viperish subtleties of Tear, the openness of the Wise Ones' spying was refreshing.

Bacon is similarly high-handed with his circle of friends, whom the movie portrays as a viperish nest of supercilious hangers-on.

The viperish look she bestowed on Hearvin sent chills down Emien's spine.

Three strides he took, with a dancer's grace, longsword licking out with viperish speed, and his shield was another weapon, not merely a passive defense.

An imperious presence, Miss Vivo stalked onto the stage, then let her movements lash out with almost viperish venom.

Alcoholism, wife beating, even murder, are rife in the slums of Hankou, a factory town, but the enemy is plainly the viperish capitalist system.

Like Simone Strachey, the viperish narrator of this tale of simulation and comic role reversals is undone by his own scheming.

By the Almighty, we have escaped from the blackamoor and from drowning, but how shall we escape from this abominable and viperish monster?"

There is the inevitable ornery, jeans-wearing American nun, as well as a ruthless banker (estranged from the Andalusian beauty) and plenty of viperish ecclesiastical intrigue.

From here, Moll becomes a servant to the imperious Mrs. Allworthy, a viperish madam who sells her into prostitution and later rescues her from vagrancy.

In a magazine interview, Mr. Fierstein said he turned down the role of the viperish newspaper columnist because the character was so horrible, like all the other homosexuals in the film.

But it doesn't make the humor any smarter, and as the snipes kept coming and I stopped counting, the barking of those words in viperish tones began to push a few of my buttons.