bilious
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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
Washed in an unappetizing sludge of grayish green, the movie aims for serious and settles on bilious.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 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
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
He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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