Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being poisonous.

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  • noun The state or quality of being poisonous.

Etymologies

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From poisonous +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • No, he was the political hero who used his genius to accomplish the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights act, and Medicare, among many others, and who also blundered disastrously into Vietnam, with consequences we continue to feel today in the poisonousness of our politics.

    Matthew Yglesias » A Historic Achievement 2010

  • Artur Davis is now on PBS on the Clinton-Obama poisonousness.

    Flashback: McCain Agreed To Condemn Swift-Boat Attacks In General Election 2009

  • The bright colours are to advertise their poisonousness to predators, I think.

    Really? I Mean, Really?!? (Yes, MORE Turkey Wrecks) 2009

  • “Because it would justify your poisonousness,” she says in an academic monotone.

    Venomous 2008

  • “Because it would justify your poisonousness,” she says in an academic monotone.

    Venomous 2008

  • When I began looking into it, I discovered that it was a pretty complicated deal to make root beer. with ramifications, including the unwelcome possibility of poisonousness.

    Root Beer Dreams: Part I Lindy 2006

  • When I began looking into it, I discovered that it was a pretty complicated deal to make root beer. with ramifications, including the unwelcome possibility of poisonousness.

    Toast: Lindy 2006

  • When I began looking into it, I discovered that it was a pretty complicated deal to make root beer. with ramifications, including the unwelcome possibility of poisonousness.

    Americana Lindy 2008

  • When I began looking into it, I discovered that it was a pretty complicated deal to make root beer. with ramifications, including the unwelcome possibility of poisonousness.

    In a Glass Lindy 2007

  • When I began looking into it, I discovered that it was a pretty complicated deal to make root beer. with ramifications, including the unwelcome possibility of poisonousness.

    Root Beer Dreams Lindy 2006

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