bilious

[US]/'bɪlɪəs/
[UK]/'bɪlɪəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. relating to bile, having a bad temper.

Phrases & Collocations

bilious temperament

biliousness

bilious attack

Example Sentences

a bilious olive hue.

outbursts of bilious misogyny.

He was a bilious old gentleman.

bilious taste in the mouth

Real-world Examples

He knew but two types of Methodist—the ecstatic and the bilious.

Source: Adam Bede (Part One)

And we kinda tried to really turn him really into this bilious little man.

Source: GQ — Representative Roles of Celebrities

A stunted, smoked-blackened tree at the corner had put out new leaves of a bilious green.

Source: The heart is a lonely hunter.

The malady itself, one from which she had often suffered, a bilious fever—its cause therefore constitutional.

Source: Northanger Abbey (original version)

This was rather too much for poor Mary; sometimes it made her bilious, sometimes it upset her gravity.

Source: Middlemarch (Part Two)

He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.

Source: Jane Eyre (Original Version)

Mr Leach is at his best when profiling men such as Edwards, Scudder and others, including solitary, taciturn Herman Strecker and resentful, bilious Augustus Grote.

Source: The Economist - Arts

Even the street organs put me in a happy mood; I owe many a page to them — written when I should else have been sunk in bilious gloom.

Source: Essays on the Four Seasons

The only thing that Fernanda noted in the man whom a few months later she was to expel from the house without remembering where she had seen him was the bilious texture of his skin.

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

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