Adjective
Spiteful; treacherous.
Usage- Figurative
- Rare
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Your sig disappears when I click reply, so I can't leave it in for others to see who you are. What I really find hard about all this, is that I don't know you. I don't remember being viperesque with you. I don't remember... well, it doesn't matter why you are what you are. It only truly matters what you are.
He [Paul Crewe]’s sent to a remote maximum security prison whose viperesque warden (James Cromwell) strong-arms Crewe into forming and coaching an all-convict team to play an exhibition match against his semipro team of savage guards.
And no, I wasn't feeling sorry for them. But it did finally diffuse some of my animosity and turn me toward pity without empathy. Which, I was positive, Scarlett read in my eyes because her own expression instantly flattened out to viperesque.