bilious

Example Sentences

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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

I tracked Simpson’s prevarications for years in print, eventually receiving a bilious email from him in which he simply repeated the lies I had debunked.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 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

But it is difficult not to believe that, from that day on, those divisions became more pronounced, more concrete, more bilious, and that the game has never recovered.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021

A stunted, smoke-blackened tree at the corner had put out new leaves of a bilious green.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers