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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
liverish
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The crew all looked liverish and unhappy.
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Wiktionary
liverish

a. Not feeling well due to an upset digestive system; queasy.

WordNet
liverish
  1. adj. suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress [syn: bilious, livery]

  2. irritable as if suffering from indigestion [syn: atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic]

Usage examples of "liverish".

He was a sallow, liverish individual, narrow as a slat except for a hard round belly that made a bulge under a crimson cummerbund.

It was watching us, like a liverish dragon, the yellow eyes grown cautious in their old age.

The arrogant, liverish, treacherous little man was magically transformed into a martyr.

Harrington was quite tired at the end of it, and he felt liverish from the heavy lunch and the wine.

Unavoidably he broke the adult growths from time to time and was showered with sooty black, or liverish pink, or ugly red and yellow dust, or was enveloped in clouds or spores.

Pasty skin, liverish, too-red lips, bruised-looking circles around his eyes.

The ample visage of Inspector Hall looked flabby and liverish, showed no sort of pleasure at the sight of Mr.