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bilious

adjective as in peaked

adjective as in sallow

adjective as in sickly

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Not altogether surprising because the proliferation of guns and incendiary political rhetoric over the past few decades — and especially the last few bilious years — made the shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pa., seemingly just a matter of time.

None of the works, by the way, resemble “Open Casket,” the photograph-based painting of Emmett Till that jettisoned Schutz into bilious controversy in 2017.

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

The canvas, 5 feet square, imposes the sentiment in a stack of crisp white words over snow-covered mountain scenery, the sky a sallow yellow fading upward into bilious green.

She found a scandalous handwritten letter circa 1952 hidden beneath the vinyl flooring, and on the original window panes, you can still see glimmers of old paint, a bilious brown and a forest green, Kukafka says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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