snakelike

adjective

Definition of snakelikenext
as in malevolent

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snakelike
  1. malevolent
  2. malignant
  3. devious
  4. malicious
  5. spiteful
  6. virulent
  7. hateful
  8. vicious
Adjective
  • Like the song says, friends can like different things from one another, but pretty much everyone loves Sesame Street — well, everyone except David Zaslav, the malevolent, showbiz-hating chairman of Warner Bros. Discovery.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The most vaunted had malevolent aims: the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC), a sprawling military R&D enterprise thought to employ as many as 20,000 people.
    ByRichard Stone, science.org, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of malevolent
Adjective
  • She’s also undergone 30 cryogenic lung ablations—a procedure in which a radiologist uses a needle-like probe to freeze malignant tumors off the lungs.
    Julia Ries, SELF, 4 Dec. 2024
  • While the diverse kinds of grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services or Energy Department loan programs may not immediately seem representative of the sub-regulatory decrees that irk industry, increasingly the malignant materiality and significance of grants deserve more attention.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of malignant
Adjective
  • Up top with Bernard and Lukas, the devious IT Head revels in his plan to starve the accomplices out.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The island dwindled with more monumental blindsides like Andy’s devious Operation Italy which led to Rachel pulling out her immunity idol at the last possible moment (and her historic run with four immunity challenge wins!!).
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of devious
Adjective
  • Last November, Skakel sued the town and the case’s lead investigator, seeking damages for alleged malicious prosecution, among other rights violations.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Their allegations do not reflect a review of the actual evidence, and are a malicious and cowardly assault on the truth.
    Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of malicious
Adjective
  • Share [Findings] Unaffiliated voters are growing more spiteful toward both Democrats and Republicans.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The end of the JCPOA made a spiteful Iran even more aggressive.
    Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2023
Definition of spiteful
Adjective
  • The onslaught against migrants that the Russian nationalist movement has unleashed, in concert with the police, has become so virulent that even some of Putin’s erstwhile defenders can’t stomach it.
    Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Pigs can foster the creation of a more virulent and transmissible human pathogen due to their ability to harbor both avian and human influenza viruses.
    Crystal Heath and Gene Baur, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of virulent
Adjective
  • Criticism is never easy to take, especially when it’s buried under snarky memes and hateful trolling.
    Molly McPherson, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Four major neo-Nazi accounts on X unmasked An investigation this week in the Texas Observer names the people behind four influential accounts on X, formerly Twitter, that have shared hateful neo-Nazi and white supremacist content with millions of users.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of hateful
Adjective
  • That's what's happened in House of the Dragon season 2's vicious civil war, the Dance of the Dragons.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
  • The 2024 adaptation of Nosferatu, the second cinematic remake of the German Expressionist classic, stars horror mainstay Skarsgård (It, Barbarian) as the vicious Count Orlok.
    Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of vicious
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snaked

snakelike

snake pit

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