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bilious

[bil-yuhs] / ˈbɪl jəs /








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Color is a bilious miasma, golden tones sliding into flashes of brightness that collapse into queasy hues.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 20, 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

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

I had forgotten my earlier fright; it came back in a sick, bilious wash.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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