adjective
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informal having a disorder of the liver
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disagreeable; peevish
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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
By novel's end Gerald's liverish conscience finally forces him to pin down the Melpham hoax and expose it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Five nights a week at 7:45 E.S.T., approximately 1% of New York City's radio listeners dial station WHN for 15 minutes of liverish news analysis by a balding frenetic, German-born commentator named Johannes Steel.
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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