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adjective

bilious

affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting; spiteful

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Six example sentences with bilious, each labelled with its topic.

  • Three days after the crossing he still felt bilious, unable to keep down even the weak tea the doctor allowed.

    Medicine

  • The novelist gives the landlord a bilious temper, sour to every tenant and quick with an insult.

    Literature

  • The ferry pitched for six hours, and half the passengers arrived pale and bilious, clutching paper bags.

    Travel

  • The senator's bilious reply to the reporter, full of sneers and personal digs, cost him more votes than the question had.

    Politics

  • After sprinting on a full stomach he sat bilious on the curb, unable to face the water bottle for ten minutes.

    Fitness

  • The critic's bilious review mocked the actors' faces and haircuts and said almost nothing about the film itself.

    Movies

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