bilious

Example Sentences

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The canvas, 5 feet square, imposes the sentiment in a stack of crisp white words over snow-covered mountain scenery, the sky a sallow yellow fading upward into bilious green.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2023

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

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

Their eyes met, and what she saw in the bilious melange of green and orange was not shock, or guilt, but a form of challenge, or even triumph.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan