bilious
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Mr. McMullan is an effective antidote to the more bilious goings on—the acting is much more flamboyant in the Atticus story than in Susan’s, which is less entertaining than distracting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
What he actually wrote was “dogs bark it, asses and mules bray it, and bilious bipeds whistle it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
But the real trouble came some two decades later, when Capote’s bilious short story “La Côte Basque, 1965,” an excerpt from his planned masterpiece-to-be “Answered Prayers,” was poised for publication in Esquire magazine.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022
But her rhetoric can be just as bilious, if not more so.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
And with their ice cream and clean faces they elicited in his gut again that bilious, unwanted irritation.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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