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
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
An hour later his wife, who suspects him of feeling a little liverish, half-kittenishly, half-remorsefully entices him away to a weekend in the Berkshires.
From Time Magazine Archive
But when they ripened, they grew fat and juicy, the size of a grape, and of a liverish color.
From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
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