viperishness
nounEtymology From viperish + -ness.
1
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: