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- adverb In a
bilious way.
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Examples
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It is refreshing to report that the piece is highly ambitious, biliously funny and right on the button.
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But, in the process, Pierre's story and Ronder's version offer a biliously funny account of the commercialisation of horror.
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"You have killed just enough of our folk to each have a ride to the city," the captain said biliously as a soldier handed him the ring of shackle keys.
Mercadian Masques Lebaron, Francis 1999
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It went down on its belly, lay there glowing biliously, making a nasty whining noise.
The Silver Spike Cook, Glen 1989
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Here over greens and cold water the father sighed, the mother wept apart, the clerk eyed biliously the meagre fare.
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I had not noticed until that moment two commercial-looking individuals, obviously British, seated close by and gazing biliously upon the marvellous rapids; but I heard one remark to the other:
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss
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We complain considerably just now of the swamping of class distinctions in our lands, but a man of culture has a prerogative to which the biliously moral middle classes can never aspire: to be an Arab, when it suits him.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
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Mr. May went home more sick and weary than ever, and took his whiskey more biliously.
The Lost Girl 1907
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Then a man could study its customs with undivided soul; but being so very near next door, he goes about the land with one eye on the smoke of the flesh-pots of the old country across the seas, while with the other he squints biliously and prejudicially at the alien.
American Notes Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Brooker, a stout and flabby man, with pouches under biliously tinged eyes, bowed and broke into a violent perspiration, not wholly due to the shiny black frock-coat suit of broadcloth donned for the occasion.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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