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"Admirable tenderness!" said Madame Fosco, admiring her husband, with a last viperish look in my direction.

There are terrific one-liners and a great performances from Honeysuckle Weeks, as the viperish Mabel Cantwell, and a comic turn from Maureen Lipman as the hideous Mrs Gamadge, arbiter of what "the women" find acceptable.

As the tension mounts through crucial ballots, the candidates and their wives spar - with some terrific one liners, a great performance from Honeysuckle Weeks as the viperish Mabel Cantwell, and a fine comic turn from Maureen Lipman as the hideous Mrs Gamadge, arbiter of what 'the women', find acceptable.

Sarah Palin, who seems ever more viperish, deployed her Yoda syntax with Sean Hannity: "People are looking at Putin as one who wrestles bears and drills for oil.

"There's not a lot I can tell you about Gone Girl without ruining its dark surprises, but I can tell you that it's an ingenious and viperish thriller--and that no matter how smart you think you are, it's going to bite you.

LIVE television can be a nerve-wracking, competitive and viperish place in which to work.