'bilious' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that means having or causing a feeling of nausea or sickness, usually related to the digestive system. It can also refer to someone who is irritable or ill-tempered. Example: Despite her best efforts, Sarah couldn't shake off the bilious feeling in her stomach after eating the questionable seafood at the restaurant. Example: The boss's bilious mood made the entire office tense and afraid to approach him.
Probably a self-portrait, it is a gaunt, life-sized full-frontal nude with a skin-tone of bilious marshy green and orange nipples and one baleful, red, staring eye.
Cool Hand Luke Synonymous with the bilious but protein diet-friendly scene where its antihero eats 50 hard-boiled eggs to win a bet, Cool Hand Luke stars Paul Newman as a war veteran refusing to buckle to authority in a rural Florida chain-gang prison.
Small compensation for the election result, of course, but it is nice to be reminded that neither the Tories, nor the BBC's timorousness, are yet to suppress all pockets of bilious, bloody-minded resistance.
It takes some effort now to recall the bilious mood in England when he was just, in the Mirror's headline, "one stupid boy".
It catapults enthusiasts into the air from the edge of a ridge and provides them with a panoramic, if slightly bilious, vision of the hills and dales below.
But the national debate on immigration has recently acquired a bilious tone, focused overwhelmingly on the threat of illegal immigration.
After his bilious journey "Up North", he has now winced and shuddered his way through a different kind of country: the "season", the social calendar of the upper classes.
That may be true of some Georgians diplomats point out there were no ultimatums in the Ossetian resolution but feelings in the Kremlin seem authentically bilious.
A nitpicking tax system, and bilious attitudes towards the expatriate rich, have made some feel unwanted in Britain.
His great grandfather was America's most renowned Puritan theologian, and he eventually wrote his own three-volume doorstop.Mr Leach is at his best when profiling men such as Edwards, Scudder and others, including solitary, taciturn Herman Strecker and resentful, bilious Augustus Grote.
In a bilious stream of videos and pronouncements, he preached the cause of global jihad.Pakistan ought, by rights, to have cheered the news too.
