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

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

These, too, I left amid the bilious contents of my drafts folder.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 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

Though I didn’t do anything stupid, exactly, or say anything that I shouldn’t, I felt dejected and bilious, and I talked little and ate even less.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt