jaundiced

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Pale, jaundiced, and crumpled, they have all the sea-sick look and haggard cheek of the real martyr--all except one, a stout, swarthy, brown-visaged man, of about forty, with a frame of iron, and a voice like the fourth string of a violincello.

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  1. adjective Affected with jaundice.
  2. adjective Yellow or yellowish.
  3. adjective Affected by or exhibiting envy, prejudice, or hostility.

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  • These are all small choices to make and can get you noticed with a less jaundiced (some might say more appreciative) eye.
  • ‘The manager looked a bit jaundiced, I thought… or is that my imagination?’ Mark explained, quite truthfully, exactly what had happened on the previous day. —  Faintley Speaking - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 27: 1954
  • He honestly confessed, therefore, that he had waited some months before criticising the "Naval History," so that he might not look at it with a jaundiced or malignant eye in consequence of his recollections of the previous work on England. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of James Fenimore Cooper by Thomas R. Lounsbury
  • Next was the danger of getting shagged in the showers, which the general public's joke-jaundiced impression had suggested was mandatory. —  Also by Christopher Brookmyre
  • A gas lamp on either side of the steps leading up to the entrance showed the brickwork to be of a jaundiced, despairing yellow. —  AnalogSFF,May2006
 

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