jaundiced
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɔːndɪst/
Adjective

jaundiced

  1. (pathology) affect#Verb|Affected with jaundice.
    • Joseph Hall
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  2. (figuratively) Prejudiced; envious.
    a jaundiced judgment
    • 1924 October, Percival Christopher Wren, “Of the Strange Events at Zinderneuf”, in Beau Geste, London: John Murray, OCLC 31480546 ↗; republished London: John Murray, […], February 1928, OCLC 503879036 ↗, part I (Major Henri de Beaujolais’ Story), § 1, page 9 ↗:
      Mr. George Lawrence, C.M.G., First Class District Officer of His Majesty's Civil Service, sat at the door of his tent and viewed the African desert scene with the eye of extreme disfavour. [...] The eye was jaundiced, thanks to the heat and foul dust of Bornu, to malaria, dysentery, inferior food, poisonous water, and rapid continuous marching in appalling heat.
    • 2003, Simon S. Godfrey, The Nature of Man and God: A New Look, Trafford Publishing, page 186 [http://books.google.com/books?id=E5Q7ch56wc4C&pg=PA186&dq=jaundiced+godfrey+date:1970-2008&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&sig=rgUNZAhqGLWqRtfioTyRK4W5S0o]
      If we have experienced a hostile world in childhood, we will continue to view almost everyone with a jaundiced eye and react to them according to our perception.
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