viperous
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Otherwise, the script prunes the couple’s legal battle down to one scene with Ivy’s viperous lawyer, played by Allison Janney, who brings a rottweiler to the showdown and claims it’s her service animal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
As compensation, we might get the deliciously viperous instead, just for the engaging fun of it, but there too the current roster is not delivering.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2021
I was particularly disappointed by Tatiana Maslany, as the viperous young exec Diana Christensen, who would sell her soul for ratings if only she had one to begin with.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
Tellingly, we notice these characters only when the family does; they are otherwise as invisible to us as they are to Georges, Anne and the rest of their viperous brood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2017
"I have paid beforehand for the quarter; I have as much right to be here as any one else," she said, with a viperous look at the boarders.
From Father Goriot by Ellen Marriage
