viperishness en · NOUN
Etymology
From viperish + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being viperish.
Elizabeth Taylor, young, beautiful, bare-shouldered and photographed through the kaleidoscope-covered lens while eating from a fork, is multiplied and reversed into a creature of exquisite Pre-Raphaelite viperishness, a ravishing, ravaging Medusa.
2000 July 7, Roberta Smith, “ART IN REVIEW; Weegee”, in The New York Times: