liverish

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Grilled and sliced, they lent an agreeably liverish swagger to a strikingly composed salad landscaped with red beet purée, pickled Satsuma, pistachios and leaves of escarole and arugula dressed in mustard-seed vinaigrette.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2014

These included Thomas Hiram Holding, who founded the National Camping Club in 1906 as a prophylactic against the kind of modern lifestyle that was apt to turn a young man liverish.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2011

Five nights a week at 7:45 E.S.T., approximately 1% of New York City's radio listeners dial station WHN for 15 minutes of liverish news analysis by a balding frenetic, German-born commentator named Johannes Steel.

From Time Magazine Archive

"When I go to a funeral, I dress for it," he explained with a liverish smile.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when they ripened, they grew fat and juicy, the size of a grape, and of a liverish color.

From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)