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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
jaundiced
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
eye
▪ A night to bring any man to contemplate the dogged scourge of Lady Fortune's whip with a jaundiced eye.
▪ The jaundiced eye sees not black and white but yellow and grey.
▪ Even to the jaundiced eyes of veteran Washington reporters, this is mighty early to be planning a presidential campaign.
view
▪ In my sadly jaundiced view, experience comes very expensive.
▪ This may seem a jaundiced view, but the evidence is disturbing.
▪ To notice only the bad, when there is so much good, may be seen as a jaundiced view.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A night to bring any man to contemplate the dogged scourge of Lady Fortune's whip with a jaundiced eye.
▪ After two weeks she became jaundiced and was referred with the diagnosis of choledocholithiasis.
▪ Even student teachers, who might reasonably be expected to be the least jaundiced and most optimistic informants, aren't happy.
▪ His editorial polemics, however, were jaundiced by anti-Semitism.
▪ This morning even the scenery could not lift her from her jaundiced mood.
▪ We all land safely with no real casualties other than the odd jaundiced expression.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jaundiced

Jaundiced \Jaun"diced\, a.

  1. Affected with jaundice.

    Jaundiced eyes seem to see all objects yellow.
    --Bp. Hall.

  2. Prejudiced; envious; as, a jaundiced judgment.

Wiktionary
jaundiced

a. 1 Affected with jaundice. 2 prejudiced; envious; as, a '''jaundiced''' judgment.

WordNet
jaundiced

  1. adj. affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc [syn: icteric, yellow]

  2. showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste; "looked with a jaundiced eye on the growth of regimentation"; "takes a jaundiced view of societies and clubs"

Usage examples of "jaundiced".

A thin and jaundiced face, deep lines and shaven head, mouth adrip with vomit, staring in horror.

Kestrel, peering into the turbid waters of the fishpond with a jaundiced eye, made no reply.

Tremaine let her breath out in annoyance, exchanged a jaundiced look with Gerard, and followed.

This woman was a widow, aged between thirty and forty years, of a jaundiced complexion, and a piercing and malicious aspect.

Otley, protesting in vain that none but sapskulls would sport the blunt to the tune of eighteen shillings for a romance by an unknown author resigned himself to ruin, and watched with a jaundiced eye the efforts of the senior partner to puff off the book to the ton.

Resolutely, I page through inflamed udders and jaundiced livers and suppurating gums just to remain safely inside my shell and marinate in righteous indignation.

Dexter had sworn off messianic attempts to save the world after the fiasco of THE TRANSFORMATION, and had developed a far keener and more jaundiced awareness of the Faustian temptation thereof in the years since.

Trenor will, for all his imperfections, take a jaundiced view toward your neglect of his nine reluctant patients.

He greeted the officer stiffly, with, out taking his faded eyes, in their pouches of jaundiced skin, off the Buzzard.

Aubri stretched both his forelegs, one at a time, regarding the blunted, ebony talons on the end of each claw with a jaundiced eye.

He scanned Shaftesbury Avenue with a jaundiced eye, and thought that he had never seen a beastlier thoroughfare.

The sheriff crouched next to a jaundiced potted bamboo palm, vainly reaching for a tiny, greasy window in the front door, the only source of natural light in the waiting room.

Black pines spread bristled arms through the charry night, and the moon cast down a jaundiced light that seemed to obscure more than it illuminated.

Since all the other couples were conducting similar inquiries, with identical responses, the missionaries began to look with truly jaundiced eyes at their doctor, as if Brother Whipple ought by some miracle to be able to dispel the tormenting biliousness.

The jaundiced light from the bar skittered across the razored edge of the curved metal blade jutting out from his right wrist, and a red light glowed in his eyes.