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  • verb Present participle of jaundice.

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Examples

  • It was a clash of temperaments hopelessly at odds, in which the spoken word weighed little beside the mute antipathy jaundicing the mind.

    The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

  • The image of the two of them -- he a tiny child, but both of them children lost in time -- was just a weathering photograph, a jaundicing pallid image lost forever, as a web page with an address that was indefeasibly and indelibly forgotten by all in time's thicket of images.

    An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

  • That can remove the rancor from otherwise jaundicing wounds.

    BlueOregon 2009

  • "Let me get this straight: The insurance industry, you know the one that effortlessly conjures up scores of convenient reasons to delay or deny little jaundicing Johnny's liver transplant or pay up on Joe Punchclock's storm flattened house after collecting premiums for years, is suddenly helpless when it comes to finding the legal justification to withhold hundreds of millions in" bonuses "to the guys who sunk their company along with the global economy?

    BlueOregon 2009

  • "Let me get this straight: The insurance industry, you know the one that effortlessly conjures up scores of convenient reasons to delay or deny little jaundicing Johnny's liver transplant or pay up on Joe Punchclock's storm flattened house after collecting premiums for years, is suddenly helpless when it comes to finding the legal justification to withhold hundreds of millions in" bonuses "to the guys who sunk their company along with the global economy?

    BlueOregon 2009

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