How to Use bilious in a Sentence

bilious

adjective

• But her rhetoric can be just as bilious, if not more so.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
• The themes seemed familiar, the outsider's distrust of the systems and structures of the state, a more bilious paranoia.
  — Michael Paterniti, GQ, 7 Mar. 2018
• Guided by the tastes of critics and academics, the museums and galleries fill up with the ugly, the sordid, the cruel, the bilious, the strange.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
• The Finnish cocktail is usually a mix of gin and grapefruit soda, sort of a more bilious Paloma.
  — Vulture, 29 Sep. 2022
• And may this be a lesson to never make contact with your sibling’s bilious male offspring again.
  — Richard Lawson, vanityfair.com, 19 July 2017
• At least it's well-acted, with Tim Blake Nelson making the most of his bilious dialogue.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 26 Oct. 2022
• His purified Afrofuture keeps paling in the bilious light of the real past.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2022
• Now and then something prods it, throws it a bone, and the bilious feeling I experience is surely its dry fuzzy tail flipping from side to side.
  — Claire-Louise Bennett, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• But the election was more than a vindication of persistence or even a partial rejection of the bilious, boodling, brain-dead regime of Donald J. Trump.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 7 Nov. 2020
• Nevertheless, Strickland builds his own worlds with such a distinctive style — down to the fonts, the bilious shades of green and the textures of the silks — that the viewer can’t help feeling pulled into his crazy maelstrom of quirk.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2022
• Today Is the Today — into a bilious noise-rock confection, all rumbling bass, spat-out vocals and rusty-wire guitar.
  — Hank Shteamer, SPIN, 27 Sep. 2022
• But a person expiring between the ages of one and 44 years is more likely to fall under what the charts render a yawning wedge of bilious turquoise: the color of dying by accident.
  — New York Times, 12 Dec. 2019
• This tune, dotted with Roth’s patented milk-curdling screams, ended with the lead screamer striking a devilish pose at the stage’s end while being bathed in torrents of bilious green lights. Want more?
  — The Enquirer, 7 Oct. 2020
• In the video, which can be seen on YouTube, two men engage in banter that is by turns friendly, argumentative, and literally bilious.
  — Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2017
• Those who only know Simon Heffer from his somewhat bilious writings in the Daily Mail might be tempted to ignore his book on this period.
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
• Maybe Zuckerberg envisioned that, in determining whether Trump should return, the board would unroll a litany of bilious Trump posts to justify its ruling.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 5 May 2021
• The freedom inside the bilious green room, while naughty, funny, and subversive, also included the darker liberties.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2021
• Tropical Storm Kate is still spinning in the mid Atlantic but its organization is looking bilious.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2021
• Via social media and email, bilious readers shared stats and articles that purported to show minority groups commit more mass shootings than white people.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
• Beyond Mr. Trump’s schoolboy imprecations, the bilious environment has drawn attention to the more serious issue of the United States’ record of putting women in positions of power.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 30 July 2016
• Beneath the bilious loner is a nostalgic relic of Old Hollywood, a caustically witty observer and, on some level, a real human being.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Dec. 2021
• At that point, Trump’s bilious rhetoric hadn’t been validated by any primary wins, and no credible person was willing to risk his or her reputation to support a polarizing bigot with no evident path to victory.
  — Justin Peters, Slate Magazine, 11 Aug. 2017
• The worst is its bilious, myopic hyper-partisanship; the best the unrivalled ability of American institutions, including journalists whom Mr Trump reviles, to hold the powerful to account.
  — The Economist, 15 July 2017
• Schwarzman, who was previously unknown outside his industry and New York society circles, quickly achieved a bilious reputation.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 13 Feb. 2017

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