viperish
adjEtymology From viper + -ish.
1
In the manner of a viper.
2
spiteful; treacherous
- Allwhite is dominated, of course, by its white characters: the high-school mean girls Meagan, Maegan and Megan (abused, bulimic, druggy), their mothers (smothering, manipulative, viperish) and their boyfriends (psychotic, supportive, dissolute).2023 October 4, Jesse Green, “Review: ‘White Girl in Danger’ Flips the Script on Soap Operas”, in The New York Times:
- Derived terms
- viperishly, viperishness