Looked with a jaundiced eye on the growth of regimentation. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : jaundiced skin. ,a jaundiced viewpoint. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : His social position jaundiced his view of things. From Dictionary.com.
Red always makes him look kind of jaundiced, if you know what I mean. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons of Winter Night]
She couldn't hear them, but then the doctor said something to Dr. Desai that included the word "jaundiced". From Wordnik.com. [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: LESBIANS HAVING BABIES] Reference
Lights on poles cast a jaundiced light on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives That Came Before You, The Lives That Never End] Reference
'You take a jaundiced view of all my actions, Mr Atherton. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
She has nice cheekbones, but her feet are really jaundiced. From Wordnik.com. [Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 2 Recap: Size Matters] Reference
Balaamite of Congress -- the spanked Cockney of an author -- the jaundiced. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Their world view is uniformly jaundiced, and no one gets special treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Is Author Richard Russo A Misogynist?] Reference
They share a jaundiced, if not downright dim outlook on most human endeavor. From Wordnik.com. [Not Easily Categorized] Reference
One, jaundiced and frail, is waiting to die of hepatitis C-induced cirrhosis. From Wordnik.com. [Risking Life To Give Life] Reference
He beheld the evidence of wealth -- and the envy of wealth jaundiced his soul. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
There is reason to suspect that Newton looked at this question with a jaundiced eye. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Over at the State Department and CIA, career bureaucrats viewed Chalabi with a jaundiced eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise And Fall Of Chalabi: Bush's Mr. Wrong] Reference
Now he's gone to the High Court to stop a London tabloid from printing his jaundiced journals. From Wordnik.com. [Newsmakers: Rainn Wilson, Donald & Martha] Reference
Are some readers so jaundiced about the press that they no longer even expect us to get stuff right?. From Wordnik.com. [An Erosion Of Trust] Reference
He was evidently a foreigner, and his complexion was so jaundiced that he was the colour of a guinea. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Madame Sendel's rotund checks had collapsed, she looked cross and jaundiced, and more snuffy than ever. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Let me warn you that my descriptions of composting aids and accessories are probably a little jaundiced. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
The effect has been to reduce our once fairy and glistening hull to a jaundiced mass of rust and stains. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Reuben had no more certain knowledge of a rival to guide him than the jaundiced workings of a jealous heart. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
These infants develop jaundice a day or two after birth and become intensely jaundiced within a very brief time. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
There are, of course, subplots — some involving McKiernan, some relating to Gates's jaundiced view of the Army. From Wordnik.com. [Can Gates Turn It Around?] Reference
He became the more jaundiced during the so-called structuralist controversy within the faculty and resigned in 1982. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Frank Kermode obituary] Reference
The skin becomes dry, pale and muddy in color; has more or less annoying eruptions, and exhibits a jaundiced appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
Metzenbaum's success would have been easier to explain in the '70s, when Congress took a more jaundiced view of business. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting At The Finish] Reference
Like the butlers of yesteryear, these major-domos are apt to look upon an unstarched collar with a somewhat jaundiced eye. From Wordnik.com. [Return Of The Hotel Butler] Reference
And Madame D., that old jaundiced fairy, who said to me with her Lenten smile, 'How flushed you are tonight, my dear child!'. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His countenance, of a jaundiced hue, grew haggard and wrinkled; misanthropy and hatred of the world were plainly legible upon it. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Men's souls ought to be left to see clearly; not jaundiced, blinded, twisted all awry, by revenge, moral abhorrence, and the like. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration] Reference
Smollett, oppressed by disease, traveled over Europe in the hope of finding health, he saw everything through his own jaundiced eyes. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
His hero -- the jaundiced Sikh police inspector Sartaj Singh -- brings all the force of noir convention to the mean streets of Mumbai. From Wordnik.com. [Bollywood Dreams] Reference
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