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- noun Plural form of
virago .
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Examples
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Latest from Radio 4's manic emailing viragos, touching on loneliness, breast cancer and homelessness.
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In this she was quite unlike the rest of the girls and women of the Folk, who were born viragos.
CHAPTER X 2010
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It made her wonder if such extreme kindness in men brought out the worst in their women, turning potential pussycats into cruel viragos.
One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010
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It made her wonder if such extreme kindness in men brought out the worst in their women, turning potential pussycats into cruel viragos.
One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010
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The contemporaries of half our fiercest viragos of fifty, may assure you that, at fifteen, they were all softness and sweetness.
Camilla 2008
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She's got her sights set on Hillary Clinton, and it's going to get ugly, with the hurling of dangerous words like viragos and cathexis and — my personal favorite — "sycophantish":
Archive 2007-11-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Aside from the stylish Huma Abedin, there's definitely something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign -- sometimes to her detriment, as with the recent ham-handed playing of the clichéd gender card.
Archive 2007-11-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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"Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."
Archive 2007-11-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Both shows depict “real” women as little better than bitchy, competitive, backstabbing viragos obsessed with their looks and incapable of conversation topics that run deeper than their own lip gloss.
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Between the towering fashion models, overachieving career viragos and basketball-player-sized transsexuals, there are more oversized chicks with giant trotters per square mile than anywhere else in the world.
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