bilious
adjective
relating to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
biliousness
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a word derived from
bilious.
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
Liver, The.—Where biliousness prevails, without any symptom of real liver disease, it is well first to look to the state of the stomach and bowels.
From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk
