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jaundiced

[ jawn-dist, jahn- ]

adjective

  1. affected with or colored by or as if by jaundice:

    jaundiced skin.

  2. affected with or exhibiting prejudice, as from envy or resentment:

    a jaundiced viewpoint.

    Synonyms: jealous, envious, resentful



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Word History and Origins

Origin of jaundiced1

First recorded in 1630–40; jaundice + -ed 3
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Example Sentences

On the surface, the material’s jaundiced view of human nature seems perfect for him.

From Time

As we talked I looked at three babies, their skin a jaundiced yellow, in a single incubator.

Jaundiced, splotchy skin subs for a full coat of green face paint.

So I'd like to see the same jaundiced eye that gets applied to food truck regulations also applied to the federal government.

His skin tone is made to look nearly jaundiced, contrasting with his pale, plump lips.

Perhaps, too, the public remains less cynical about the possibility of “hope and change” than more jaundiced historians.

But he viewed the whole of this reign, and of those that ensued, with the jaundiced eye of Jacobitism.

There is a solid substratum of truth in the old saying, Looking at the world through jaundiced eyes.

I carried my sack on my back to the hotel, looking with a jaundiced eye on the lethargic traffic of the harbour front.

I found he had gone on in his usual intemperate life, his countenance jaundiced, and the dropsy coming on apace.

At the morning visit I found him greatly disturbed and jaundiced all over his body.

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