Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being venomous, in any sense; poisonousness; malignity; spitefulness.

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  • noun The condition of being venomous

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Examples

  • How can I possibly convey the terrible venomousness with which he uttered these words?

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • And in Romania, anti-Semitism “takes on a brutality of action and frequently a venomousness of expression which makes effective comparison with Nazi Germany,” Hyman said.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • The waves still raved very high, they would not go back, and they lashed with a venomousness to the cliffs, to cut a man off.

    Kangaroo 2004

  • They erupted out of me with such venomousness, that I could not stop them from assaulting everyone in my defense.

    breakthedark Diary Entry breakthedark 2003

  • That is where all the venomousness and silliness is supposed to have come from.

    'Nuclear Temptations': An Exchange Wohlstetter, Albert 1984

  • This will doubtless prove my venomousness to Professor Cambon, but that is a risk I am ready to take.

    Svevo in Italy Cambon, Glauco 1964

  • Let us compromise by saying that Mr. Lloyd George was singularly like a spitting, angry cat, which had got, perhaps, out of serious danger from her pursuers, but which caterwauled and spat and swore with vigour and venomousness quite surprising in that diminutive bulk.

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

  • How can I possibly convey the terrible venomousness with which he uttered these words?

    Chapter 14 1914

  • Finally, with all the venomousness of which he was capable,

    The Exploits of Elaine 1908

  • In fact, the demonstration became so uproarious that some measure of it was open to suspicion, especially as hisses of reptilian venomousness were commingled with it, and also a hoarse but vociferous repetition of the dastard words, "Carrie dances ROTTEN!"

    Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907

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