venomousness

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ven·om·ous

(vĕn′ə-məs)

adj.

a. Secreting and transmitting venom: a venomous snake.

b. Full of or containing venom: a venomous substance.

a. Malicious; spiteful: a venomous remark.

b. Harmful or destructive: "all the venomous ingredients of corruption" (Garry Wills).

ven′om·ous·ly adv.

ven′om·ous·ness n.

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venomousness

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A desire to harm others or to see others suffer:

despitefulness, ill will, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, nastiness, poisonousness, spite, spitefulness, viciousness.

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