Envenomed

He was conscious of a kind of envenomed resentment, almost aversion; yet his chief misgiving at that moment, which he recognized with added wrath, was lest she should leave him as quickly as she had come. ❋ Bertram Mitford (1884)

It would be passing strange to have as a candidate for the presidency of the United States an envenomed crank who regularly offers justification for the 9/11 attacks that resulted in the annihilation of 3,000 Americans. ❋ Dorothy Rabinowitz (2011)

They have blown this incident vastly out of proportion, and have made envenomed attacks on her for expressing a sober and conservative (little c) view about a scientific question. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It takes a profoundly envenomed mindset—one also deeply at odds with reality—to believe and to say publicly that the administration of this nation brought so low with grief and loss after the attack had reacted with glee. ❋ Dorothy Rabinowitz (2011)

They have blown this incident vastly out of proportion, and have made envenomed attacks on her for expressing a sober and conservative little c view about a scientific question. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And when someone is so envenomed, poisoned in thought and in deed, his every discovery is poisoned as well. ❋ Sydney Kilgore (2010)

Some hot-blooded youngsters envenomed with hatred of the Dane, or panting for the glory of warfare! ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was not simply that such an act would disrupt and alienate half her following, and fetch out of their scabbards every sword that was not bared and blooded already, to prolong and poison this even now envenomed warfare. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But recent developments have envenomed things to the point that Arab diplomats troop daily into the State Department to warn that the U.S. quest for détente with Tehran is dangerous. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2009)

“Such a fall in blood pressure would be debilitating in conjunction with blood loss and would render the envenomed prey unable to escape,” he said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

‘Their association,’ said Alan, and the little flight was received with some applause, ‘resembled the ancient story of the fruit which was carved with a knife poisoned on one side of the blade only, so that the individual to whom the envenomed portion was served, drew decay and death from what afforded savour and sustenance to the consumer of the other moiety.’ ❋ Unknown (2008)

The poisoning hag must not know her scheme has miscarried; the old envenomed spider has but too many ways of mending her broken web. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There is nothing improbable in supposing that Plato may have extended and envenomed the meaning, or that he may have done the Sophists the same kind of disservice with posterity which ❋ Unknown (2006)

Do rabid lambs suck the biotic jelly our to their victims after they have been “envenomed”? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Despite the at times envenomed relations between them, however, ❋ Thornhill, Chris (2006)

Cambaceres was not the least active and envenomed. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It has therefore only been seen by enemies; and this combination of mystery and evil report has been greatly envenomed by some ill-judged newspaper articles from the States. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Stanhope, or Awkward, Left-legged Stanhope: therefore, take great care to put it out of the power of Ridicule itself to give you any of these ridiculous epithets; for, if you get one, it will stick to you, like the envenomed shirt. ❋ Unknown (2005)