serpently

adj

adj

Etymology From serpent + -ly.

Rare snakelike

[…] the having of “boyfriends” was a kind of protective self-aggrandizement, a little like the trick of the puff adder, bloating itself almost double to blind you to the serpently disgrace of its vulnerable venomlessness.2005, Trudy Dittmar, Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky: Brushes with Nature's Wisdom, page 103:

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