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Definition

suffering indigestion

or:

irritable or bad-tempered

or:

ugly or disgusting — especially of a shade of green

or:

relating to bile (a green digestive fluid)

a bilious mood

He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
One would think you were sick, or bilious, or something.
Jack London -- Adventure
A wisp of bilious green straw perched on her brow like a tropical bird.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar

bilious = ugly or disgusting

"Miss Sarah," said Joe, "she have twenty-five pound perannium fur to buy pills, on account of being bilious.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
When Dr. Meade told her she was pregnant, she was astounded, for she had been expecting a diagnosis of biliousness and over-wrought nerves.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind

(Editor's note: 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.)

The clouds were a bilious black veined with yellow and so low they seemed to compress the very earth.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
I know he has been bilious, but I gave him—
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
Guilt and impotence rose in a bilious duet.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
The malady itself, one from which she had often suffered, a bilious fever—its cause therefore constitutional.
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
A few bilious Britons there were who would not subscribe to this article of faith; but their objection was purely theoretical.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
The sergeant said to the mestizo, 'You say you're bilious and can't see properly this morning.
Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory
All day long I felt faint and bilious.
Albert Camus -- The Stranger
I was traveling through the part where the flat-footed, bilious, frog-sticker-toting Baptist biscuit-eaters live.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
Think, think of the fevers, yellow and bilious!
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
The green of the marble reflecting on their faces made them look bilious.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time
Eragon's gut twisted, and he felt Saphira's own dread like a current of bilious water running through his mind.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
This was rather too much for poor Mary; sometimes it made her bilious, sometimes it upset her gravity.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
He was a small, shrivelled person, with bad teeth and a bilious air, an untidy gray beard, and savage eyes; his voice was high and his tone sarcastic.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
"He is a nervous, bilious subject," said Larrey, "and will not recover."
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

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