单词 | rotten-livered |
释义 | > as lemmasrotten-livered rotten-livered adj. having a liver that is diseased by rot or (in humans) by excessive use of alcohol; (figurative) morally corrupt. ΚΠ 1881 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 17 192 A rotten-livered sheep gradually gets worse, and..should be killed at once to save further loss. a1898 W. C. Brann Brann Iconoclast (1905) 99 Rotten-livered rounders requested respectable women to meet them at unfrequented places and wear camp-meeting lingerie. 1929 R. Graves Poems 20 Lame, rotten-livered, this and that canaille. 1985 N. Stahl & D. Horan Buried Man vii. 44 He wondered whether he would end up a rotten-livered swiller like so many of the others. < as lemmas |
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