biliousness

Example Sentences

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Don’t come straggling into the office one morning muttering, “First, gout. Now ague, biliousness, lumbago, Saint Vitus’s dance and dropsy. What’s next, apoplexy?”

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2019

He seems eager to project all the carefree trappings of a golden family man, yet he can’t quiet his hyperactive biliousness long enough to sell that curated narrative.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2017

Celebrity couples are, of course, particularly susceptible to this kind of scrutiny and biliousness.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2016

Or maybe I just have a touch more preference for Cohen's familiar depression tinged with something like religion than for Dylan's wit and wildness and biliousness.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2012

The principal traces of this belief are the superstition of the four "temperaments," the bilious, the sanguine, the nervous, and the lymphatic, and our pet term "biliousness," so useful in explaining any obscure condition.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods