bilious

Example Sentences

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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

The high jinks and lowdown deeds that ensue in “The Menu” are sure to remind viewers of “The Triangle of Sadness,” Ruben Ostlund’s similarly bilious takedown of the rich and fatuous.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2022

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

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

The only thing that Fernanda noted in the man whom a few months later she was to expel from the house without remembering where she had seen him was the bilious texture of his skin.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez