bilious
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Mr. McMullan is an effective antidote to the more bilious goings on—the acting is much more flamboyant in the Atticus story than in Susan’s, which is less entertaining than distracting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Color is a bilious miasma, golden tones sliding into flashes of brightness that collapse into queasy hues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
Washed in an unappetizing sludge of grayish green, the movie aims for serious and settles on bilious.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
But her rhetoric can be just as bilious, if not more so.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
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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