fellifluous

comparative more fellifluous · superlative most fellifluous

1. uncommonFlowing with bile or gall.

   Behind a counter two young women, both evidently Asian, served a queue including a tipsy fellifluous Irishman.

   2007, Dannie Abse, The Presence, →ISBN, page 150

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   Truth never reveals itself either to the enthusiast smitten with his own reveries; to the fellifluous fanatic enslaved by his prejudices; to the vain glorious mortal puffed up with his own presumptuous ignorance […]

   1795, Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, translated by William Hodgson, The System of Nature: Or, The Laws of the Moral and Physical World

   Its claws scratch at the back of his eyeballs and cause him to see visions, to shriek with fevers, to choke in the embrace of fetid and fellifluous chimeras […]

   1924, Ben Hecht, The Kingdom of Evil: A Continuation of the Journal of Fantazius Mallare, page 48

   The disease of cholera, according to some, derives its name from the flow of bile that takes place from mouth and bowels, cholera being, so to speak, ‘the fellifluous disease.’

   1950 [5th century CE], Caelius Aurelianus, translated by I. E. Drabkin, On Acute Diseases and On Chronic Diseases, page 417

   What could ever be termed defeatist or pessimistic – what could ever be called fellifluous – about such ideas?

   2022, Pierre Legrand, Negative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought, →ISBN, page 375