bilious

Example Sentences

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The piece ran under an illustration of a black spatula dripping sinister goblets of melting plastic, against a background of bilious green.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024

The plant grew to shrublike proportions and, for more months of the year than not, was adorned with slightly bilious Pepto-pink flowers.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 6, 2022

But here he's usually in on the joke versus playing the buffoon, and suffers the silliness of his employer with the tolerance of a parent with a bilious child.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2022

How, one wonders, did we get to this bilious precipice?

From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2021

“A bilious complaint is caused by bile,” she says, eyes closed, thinking aloud.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin