Meaning & use
Bilious
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Affected by or relating to excess bile, causing nausea or ill temper; also used to describe an unpleasantly strong or sickly color.
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He felt bilious after the greasy meal and had to lie down.
The office walls were painted a bilious shade of green.
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Rooted in the old medical theory of the four bodily humors, 'bilious' originally described a temperament thought to result from too much bile.
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