Thesaurus / viperous
FEEDBACKHow to use viperous in a sentence
The cutting of great tracts of grass for hay stirred them into viperous action.
LAND OF THE BURNT THIGHEDITH EUDORA KOHLIt's more viperous than any other snake of the viper bunch, an' its disposition is mean and yellow right through.
PLOTTING IN PIRATE SEASFRANCIS ROLT-WHEELEROver a thousand miles we dart our viperous hearts at innocent men.
BUNYAN CHARACTERS - THIRD SERIESALEXANDER WHYTECivil dissension is a viperous worm / That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SOURCESJAMES WOODDeaf, because insensible to the beauty of Keats's verse; and viperous, because poisonous and malignant.
ADONAISSHELLEYAttorney—I want words sufficient to express thy viperous treasons.
STATE TRIALS, POLITICAL AND SOCIALVARIOUSMurderous War was here, and frantic Discord, whose viperous locks are bound with bloody fillets.
HALF A HUNDRED HERO TALESVARIOUSWhen Herr Strauss produced "Salome," half the world went in for the slim and viperous costume.
POST-IMPRESSIONSSIMEON STRUNSKYMr. Chubb cast a suspicious and viperous glance at Felix, who felt that he had been a simpleton for his pains.
FELIX HOLT, THE RADICALGEORGE ELIOTUrbino might change masters and obey the viperous Duke Valentino.
RENAISSANCE IN ITALY VOL. 3JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDSWORDS RELATED TO VIPEROUS
- bad
- baleful
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- corrupt
- corruptive
- dangerous
- deadly
- deleterious
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- detrimental
- evil
- fatal
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- lethal
- malicious
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- mephitic
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