Example Sentences

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Don’t come straggling into the office one morning muttering, “First, gout. Now ague, biliousness, lumbago, Saint Vitus’s dance and dropsy. What’s next, apoplexy?”

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2019

He seems eager to project all the carefree trappings of a golden family man, yet he can’t quiet his hyperactive biliousness long enough to sell that curated narrative.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2017

Celebrity couples are, of course, particularly susceptible to this kind of scrutiny and biliousness.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2016

Or maybe I just have a touch more preference for Cohen's familiar depression tinged with something like religion than for Dylan's wit and wildness and biliousness.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2012

Once or twice a week, or even three times, or whenever required to banish ennui, fatigue, aches or pains, or incipient cold, or biliousness, or lassitude, etc, etc.

From Turkish and Other Baths A Guide to Good Health and Longevity by Stables, Gordon