[
UK
/bˈɪlɪəs/
]
[ US /ˈbɪɫiəs/ ]
[ US /ˈbɪɫiəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
- relating to or containing bile
- irritable as if suffering from indigestion
How To Use bilious In A Sentence
- We do not come upon monster advertisements of antibilious pills, hair dye, or soap amid olive groves and vineyards. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
- The Strategic Counsel is behind this bilious bilgewater? Catapulting the propaganda
- The atrabilious maladies to which artists were supposedly vulnerable included lovesickness and plague.
- I turn away, gagging on the bilious waves of resentment rising up within me. LOVE YOU MADLY
- I'm sure if Kevin had used the word bilious in his performance, I would have let him get away with it. Broken Music, A Memoir
- Since childhood, I've been the carsick passenger whose stomach churns in nauseous waves that turn my face a bilious green.
- Brooker, a stout and flabby man, with pouches under biliously tinged eyes, bowed and broke into a violent perspiration, not wholly due to the shiny black frock-coat suit of broadcloth donned for the occasion. The Dop Doctor
- My malady, which the doctors call a bilious fever, lingers, or rather it returns with each sudden change of weather, though I am thankful to say that the relapses have hitherto been much milder than the first attack; but they keep me weak and reduced, especially as I am obliged to observe a very low spare diet. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
- A few years ago, the bilious 1990s backlash against single parents living on crumbling estates - like my sister - was slowly receding.
- All the big noses and bilious hues of the two worlds seemed to have made appointments there.