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  • adverb In a bilious way.

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Examples

  • It is refreshing to report that the piece is highly ambitious, biliously funny and right on the button.

    Neighbourhood Watch – review 2011

  • But, in the process, Pierre's story and Ronder's version offer a biliously funny account of the commercialisation of horror.

    Vernon God Little - review 2011

  • "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

  • It went down on its belly, lay there glowing biliously, making a nasty whining noise.

    The Silver Spike Cook, Glen 1989

  • Here over greens and cold water the father sighed, the mother wept apart, the clerk eyed biliously the meagre fare.

    Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

  • 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

  • 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

  • Mr. May went home more sick and weary than ever, and took his whiskey more biliously.

    The Lost Girl 1907

  • 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

  • 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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