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a bilious mood
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A wisp of bilious green straw perched on her brow like a tropical bird. (source)bilious = ugly or disgusting
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Sir John Sparrow Thompson's face was now a delicate mauve, Sir Mackenzie Bowell's a bilious green, Sir Charles Tupper's a pale orange.† (source)
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Mary Shewall died soon after of a bilious fever, and one could hardly fault her character.† (source)
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The green of the marble reflecting on their faces made them look bilious.† (source)
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—he had of course slept in her room during the visit; and for five nights, the whole time he was there, I'd lain awake bilious with fury and sorrow, ears attuned to every rustle of bedclothes, every sigh and whisper from next door.† (source)
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Their eyes met, and what she saw in the bilious melange of green and orange was not shock, or guilt, but a form of challenge, or even triumph.† (source)
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He was astonished by the beauty; it was encouraging too, for where the returned Anglo-Indian sat by rights (he knew crowds of them) in the Oriental Club biliously summing up the ruin of the world, here was he, as young as ever; envying young people their summer time and the rest of it, and more than suspecting from the words of a girl, from a housemaid's laughter—intangible things you couldn't lay your hands on—that shift in the whole pyramidal accumulation which in his youth had seemed immovable.† (source)
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When Dr. Meade told her she was pregnant, she was astounded, for she had been expecting a diagnosis of biliousness and over-wrought nerves.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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At times the Great North Road accompanied her, more suggestive of infinity than any railway, awakening, after a nap of a hundred years, to such life as is conferred by the stench of motor-cars, and to such culture as is implied by the advertisements of antibilious pills.† (source)antibilious = against or opposite "bilious"standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antibilious means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
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And with their ice cream and clean faces they elicited in his gut again that bilious, unwanted irritation.† (source)
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They biliously blame immorality Not from charity, but only from envy That others are drinking in that pleasure From which old age now drains their measure.† (source)
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t because I didn't think they were well cooked, I'm sure that everything in your house is always very dainty and nice, though I do think that Oscarina is careless about some things, she doesn't appreciate the big wages you pay her, and she is so cranky, all these Swedes are so cranky, I don't really see why you have a Swede, but——But that wasn't it, I didn't eat them not because I didn't think they weren't cooked proper, it was just—I find that onions don't agree with me, it's very strange, ever since I had an attack of biliousness one time, I have found that onions, either fried onions or raw ones, and Whittier does love raw onions with vinegar and sugar on them——" It was pure affection.† (source)
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The clouds were a bilious black veined with yellow and so low they seemed to compress the very earth.† (source)
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Guilt and impotence rose in a bilious duet.† (source)
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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)
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