Sample Sentences forbilious (auto-selected)
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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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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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And with their ice cream and clean faces they elicited in his gut again that bilious, unwanted irritation.† (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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It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sound, or that the twine and roller parted company so briskly, or that the canisters were rattled up and down like juggling tricks, or even that the blended scents of tea and coffee were so grateful to the nose, or even that the raisins were so plentiful and rare, the almonds so extremely white, the sticks of cinnamon so long and straight, the other spices so delicious, the candied fruits so caked and spotted with molten sugar as to make the coldest lookers-on feel faint and subsequently bilious.† (source)
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He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.† (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)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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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.† (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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Guilt and impotence rose in a bilious duet.† (source)
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Gumpas was a bilious-looking man with hair that had once been red and was now mostly grey.† (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 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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