bilious

Example Sentences

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Washed in an unappetizing sludge of grayish green, the movie aims for serious and settles on bilious.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023

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

Rush then noted that in recent days he had seen “an unusual number of bilious fevers, accompanied with symptoms of uncommon malignity.”

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy