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bilious::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | biliary |
| Derivation | bile |
bilious::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | atrabilious, dyspeptic, liverish |
| Derivation | biliousness |
Examples of bilious
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Surely Hef has sensed young women blanching and seeming bilious as he sidles up.
From the guardian.co.uk
The rhetoric of the bilious debate over Social Security sounds awfully familiar.
From the time.com
The bilious feud between Bangladesh's two leading women also hobbles the country.
From the time.com
Brooker's latest collection of bilious attacks on modern culture is his best yet.
From the metro.co.uk
There was a new, bilious anger directed at the US, fuelled by a newly noisy media.
From the guardian.co.uk
Mr Schiller's bilious attitude towards the Republicans and the tea-party movement?
From the economist.com
It doesn't matter how bilious they get, it only matters if they have science.
From the guardian.co.uk
Halpern Snr's brutally honest and ever so slightly bilious world-view struck a chord.
From the independent.co.uk
Maggie herself may be tough, but she is capable of bursts of bilious anger.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Relating to or containing bile
- Suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
- Atrabilious: irritable as if suffering from indigestion
- (biliousness) temper: a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees"
- Bile or gall is a bitter-tasting, dark green to yellowish brown fluid, produced by the liver of most vertebrates, that aids the process of digestion of lipids in the small intestine. In many species, bile is stored in the gallbladder and upon eating is discharged into the duodenum.
- Suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, thus making one ill-natured; Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile; Irritable or bad tempered; irascible
- (biliousness) The state of being bilious
- (Biliousness) Jaundice associated with liver disease.
- The adjective for bile, bilious has three meanings. It means of or relating to bile. By extension, bilious means suffering from liver dysfunction (and especially excessive secretion of bile). And, further by extension, it is indicative of a peevish ill-natured disposition. ...
