adjective
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informal having a disorder of the liver
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disagreeable; peevish
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Etymology
Origin of liverish
Example Sentences
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Grilled and sliced, they lent an agreeably liverish swagger to a strikingly composed salad landscaped with red beet purée, pickled Satsuma, pistachios and leaves of escarole and arugula dressed in mustard-seed vinaigrette.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2014
These included Thomas Hiram Holding, who founded the National Camping Club in 1906 as a prophylactic against the kind of modern lifestyle that was apt to turn a young man liverish.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2011
Wilted and liverish, his famed bounce almost gone, Nikita Khrushchev sweated grimly through the final week of his state visit to Egypt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Typically English was Artist Munnings' liverish outburst last week in Suffolk, the county of his birth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Roiling gray fog hovered there, diffusing the hot magenta point of Falak's sun to a liverish glare half-eclipsed by the crater's southern rim.
From Pet Farm by Aycock, Roger D.
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