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
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
But her rhetoric can be just as bilious, if not more so.
From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 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
Rush then noted that in recent days he had seen “an unusual number of bilious fevers, accompanied with symptoms of uncommon malignity.”
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
