bilious

v. (1) Of or pertaining to the bile; (2) Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms; (3) *Choleric; passionate; ill tempered. "A bilious old nabob." --Macaulay.

Australia's Parliament is divided into two chambers, the House of Representatives and the Senate (interesting, in a very low grade sort of way, that they use the British term for institution and the American terms for the chambers), and both of these were open for inspection from the visitors' galleries. Both were quite small, but handsomer than I had expected. On television, the green of the House of Representatives has a decidedly bilious look, as if the members are debating inside someone's pancreas...

--Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country

Riley sat alone on the bench near the stenographer's office, the fabric of his expensive suit stretched tightly over his massive shoulders and meaty thighs. During the morning recesses, when Schlictmann gathered with Conway, Nesson, and Kiley in the corridoer, Riley would rise from his bench and stare balefully at Schlictmann from afar, his thin lips compressed and turned down in a look of bilious hatred.

--Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action

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