Adjective : to have a liverish disposition. From Dictionary.com.
For those who feel "liverish" from time to time, the ruby is helpful as it is supposed to purify and refine the blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Jakarta Post Breaking News] Reference
He was still muzzy and a little liverish from lying abed. From Wordnik.com. [When the Lion Feeds]
Miss Wellings, too, was especially liverish as lessons began. From Wordnik.com. [The Dressmaker] Reference
'You'll only upset him, and you know how liverish that damned family is!. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Regiment]
He had been half drunk the night before, and the glare made him feel liverish. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Days] Reference
A drink makes the bird a little liverish and late-on-friday-night-feeling it seems. From Wordnik.com. [Ten dollars on the green canary] Reference
“Tell me, my friend—are you liverish today, or simply obstreperous in the extreme?”. From Wordnik.com. [Pirates] Reference
It was true he was more than old enough to be the girl's father, and was distinctly liverish. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
Entering his deserted house, he told Warmson that he felt liverish; he would have a cup of tea and. From Wordnik.com. [On Forsyte 'Change] Reference
But liverish oemper or no, he was not a fool; Cooper had learned in a harsher school than his, and survived. From Wordnik.com. [A different flesh]
The big chemist had aged markedly: his face was drawn, and he had deeply cut, liverish circles under his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [A Case Of Conscience]
The wrinkled slice of orange meant the 'Ardenne', a liverish concoction that may, or may not, have contained duck. From Wordnik.com. [How to make pâté] Reference
Teutonic tongues; it isn't our way; but it was a liverish cold weather on various accounts, and the public temper was short. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
The driver was older, a heavyset man with a mole on the side of his nose, and a wooden toothpick rolling back and forth between his liverish lips. From Wordnik.com. [Floating City]
Oh, well, as a high - ranking officer he was competent to handle anybody, the good and the bad, the sweet and the sour, the jovial and the liverish. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
The latter was a little liverish, but had not the least fishy taste. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14] Reference
When he cut into them a thin, pink, frothy fluid oozed out of the liverish surface. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
I would exchange a curt salute with those liverish parties and go my way on my old nag. From Wordnik.com. [Caesar or Nothing] Reference
He was heavily built, with an undershot jaw and a patch of liverish birthmark on his cheek. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Shot] Reference
But when they ripened, they grew fat and juicy, the size of a grape, and of a liverish color. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
But there was no mortal connection between this liverish individual and the schemes of Dr. Fu-Manchu. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil Doctor] Reference
Brewers in 25 innings (eight hours and six minutes), the longest game in liverish (LIV-er-ish) adjective. From Wordnik.com. [Answers.com: Today's Highlights] Reference
"Ha!" said he, "a bit liverish," and he pressed a rough hand firmly downward from forehead to cheek-bones. From Wordnik.com. [The Stowaway Girl] Reference
He never mentions his kidneys save to his medical adviser, but he will tell even a parlor maid that he is feeling liverish. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Burlesques] Reference
‘liverish stuff,’ he always drank with relish, restored in him something of the feeling that it was a storm in a teacup. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
My coffee was bitter, the peaches were like sponges, the bacon and rolls of uniform sogginess and the eggs of a strange liverish hue. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool and His Money] Reference
Well, I felt lovely after a six-day break, and for once came back from a holiday without feeling like a liverish experiment in human foie gras. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Thus, "Ferguson and Benítez: the mind games commence" would become "Ferguson and Benítez: the liverish February bickering starts a bit earlier this year". From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
"His hands were laced with prominent veins and spotted with big, liverish freckles. From Wordnik.com. [Cambodia Book Reviews: The Ugly American] Reference
That liverish splotch glowed. From Wordnik.com. [My Midlife Facebook Crisis] Reference
“A bit liverish,” said Morris grimly. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
2004-10-21, ah, the best i can come up with the lack of love has made me liverish. From Wordnik.com. [lazarus Diary Entry] Reference
Bailey, looking liverish, carried an automatic. From Wordnik.com. [Death in Ecstasy]
This morning was rather - well - liverish. From Wordnik.com. [Bill's Blog] Reference
"I feel a bit liverish myself. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder Is Announced]
Perhaps he’s liverish, from the heat. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
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