bilious

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

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

But here he's usually in on the joke versus playing the buffoon, and suffers the silliness of his employer with the tolerance of a parent with a bilious child.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2022

It would be of particular interest to determine whether the torment of this tissue in any way interfered with the augmentation of bilious fluxion.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson