viperish

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Intimidating and brilliant, his Julian Sklar is by turns amusingly viperish and not quite successful at concealing the softness of age.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

In opera, with its dizzying ambitions, epic lead-times and viperish politics, the stakes are celestial — and the scale and complexity of the “Ring” ratchets everything up even further.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021

Where his previous work favoured highly stylised, anti-realist acting, this has a much looser, comedy-of-manners exuberance, resulting in an ensemble of boldly raffish performances, not least from Nicholas Hoult as a viperish statesman.

From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2018

For all the stylish cinematic flourishes of "Birdman," what enticed her to play a viperish critic hellbent on repelling the Broadway incursion of a washed up Hollywood superhero franchise star was the story.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2014

“Well, I want to know!” exclaimed the Unknown suddenly, in a viperish voice.

From Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton by Emerson, Alice B.