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viperous [ˈvaɪpərəs], viperish adj 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) Also viperine [ˈvaɪpəˌraɪn] of, relating to, or resembling a viper 2. malicious viperously , viperishly adv Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | He had also shared with me his father's advice on his wedding eve 50 or so years earlier: "Cultivate cloth ears and sauce bottle shoulders," he was told, something to do with only hearing what you want to hear and letting a wife's viperous criticism slide off your sloping shoulders leaving you unaffected. As Edward Waterhouse put it in 1622, in his account of the efforts of George Thorpe to "earnestly affect their conversion," only to have "this Viperous brood" murder him "out of devillish malice," the "sinnes of these wicked Infidels, have made them unworthy of enjoying him, and the eternal good that he most zealously alwayes intended to them. Chavez has lashed out in this viperous tone before, most notably at the United Nations General Assembly in September, where he stood before nearly every foreign minister in the world and first proclaimed President Bush as 'the devil' in a perhaps overly theatrical speech that eventually cost Venezuela a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council. |
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