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[ UK /bˈɪlɪəs/ ]
[ US /ˈbɪɫiəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
  2. relating to or containing bile
  3. 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.
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