When you show people real human beings, most people don't want to be dismissive and bilious.
I'd already drafted a bitter, bilious, bombastic broadside against the right-wing hacks on the Republican Court.
GOP is a mummy-wrapped skeleton sitting in its own chilly mausoleum of bilious resentments and creepy sentimentality.
In fact, the GOP is a mummy-wrapped skeleton sitting in its own chilly mausoleum of bilious resentments and creepy sentimentality.
What signifies the blare of your brass, or the bilious bleating of your wood-wind!
Their bloodless, pinched, yellow faces were like the faces of bilious invalids.
The doctor was sent for and diagnosed the case "bilious fever."
I've put away so much of that sweet slush now that I'll be bilious for a week.
His face was long, thin and yellow, of a bilious appearance.
In India it is used for the piles and as an alterative for bilious disorders.
1540s, "pertaining to bile, biliary," from French bilieux, from Latin biliosus "pertaining to bile," from bilis (see bile). Meaning "wrathful, peevish, ill-tempered" (as people afflicted with an excess of bile were believed to be) is attested from 1560s. This is the main modern sense in English and French; the more literal meaning being taken up by biliary. Related: Biliousness.
bilious bil·ious (bĭl'yəs)
adj.
Of, relating to, or containing bile; biliary.
Characterized by an excess secretion of bile.
Relating to, characterized by, or experiencing gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gallbladder.
