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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Wilted and liverish, his famed bounce almost gone, Nikita Khrushchev sweated grimly through the final week of his state visit to Egypt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Breakfast is so proverbially dismal, that dismalness becomes good form; humanity feels silent and liverish, so it grudges Providence its due, for it cannot return thanks for the precocious blessings of the day.

From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel