{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "Your sig disappears when I click reply, so I can't leave it in for others to see who you are. What I really find hard about all this, is that I don't know you. I don't remember being viperesque with you. I don't remember... well, it doesn't matter why you are what you are. It only truly matters what you are.", "ref": "2000 January 30, susie, “Are you a Muslim?”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.liverpool (Usenet):", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[183, 193]]}, {"text": "He [Paul Crewe]’s sent to a remote maximum security prison whose viperesque warden (James Cromwell) strong-arms Crewe into forming and coaching an all-convict team to play an exhibition match against his semipro team of savage guards.", "ref": "2005 May 27, Gene Seymour, “Movie review: Jailhouse jock […]”, in Newsday, city edition, volume 65, number 266, New York, N.Y.: Newsday Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B6, columns 4–5:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[65, 75]]}, {"text": "And no, I wasn't feeling sorry for them. But it did finally diffuse some of my animosity and turn me toward pity without empathy. Which, I was positive, Scarlett read in my eyes because her own expression instantly flattened out to viperesque.", "ref": "2020, Patti Larsen, chapter 13, in Out With The Old and Death, [s.l.]: Patti Larsen Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[232, 242]]}], "categories": ["English adjectives", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English terms suffixed with -esque", "English terms with quotations", "English terms with rare senses", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries"], "links": [["Spiteful", "spiteful"], ["treacherous", "treacherous"]], "raw_glosses": ["(figurative, rare) Spiteful; treacherous."], "glosses": ["Spiteful; treacherous."], "tags": ["figuratively", "rare"]}], "pos": "adj", "head_templates": [{"name": "en-adj", "args": {}, "expansion": "viperesque (comparative more viperesque, superlative most viperesque)"}], "forms": [{"form": "more viperesque", "tags": ["comparative"]}, {"form": "most viperesque", "tags": ["superlative"]}], "etymology_text": "From viper + -esque.", "etymology_templates": [{"name": "suffix", "args": {"1": "en", "2": "viper", "3": "esque"}, "expansion": "viper + -esque"}], "word": "viperesque", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en"}