liverish

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Grilled and sliced, they lent an agreeably liverish swagger to a strikingly composed salad landscaped with red beet purée, pickled Satsuma, pistachios and leaves of escarole and arugula dressed in mustard-seed vinaigrette.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2014

These included Thomas Hiram Holding, who founded the National Camping Club in 1906 as a prophylactic against the kind of modern lifestyle that was apt to turn a young man liverish.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2011

An hour later his wife, who suspects him of feeling a little liverish, half-kittenishly, half-remorsefully entices him away to a weekend in the Berkshires.

From Time Magazine Archive

Typically English was Artist Munnings' liverish outburst last week in Suffolk, the county of his birth.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Grandfather," roused from slumber, gouty, liverish, ferociously angry, sent for Dam, Sergeant Havlan, and Sergeant Havlan's cane.

From Snake and Sword A Novel by Wren, Percival Christopher