adjective
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informal having a disorder of the liver
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disagreeable; peevish
Other Word Forms
- liverishness noun
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
"When I go to a funeral, I dress for it," he explained with a liverish smile.
From Time Magazine Archive
Plain, paunchy, respectable, he has the shrewdness as well as the looks of a village grocer; and in this film he is played to the liverish life by Jean Gabin.
From Time Magazine Archive
My coffee was bitter, the peaches were like sponges, the bacon and rolls of uniform sogginess and the eggs of a strange liverish hue.
From A Fool and His Money by McCutcheon, George Barr
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