jaundiced
5
8.2
- adjective
- /ˈdʒɔːndɪst/
:
prejuiciado
- Here again, I look at the level of homes for sale with a jaundiced eye.
- jaundiced view
- rather jaundiced
Sort of like being, you know, looking at things, as we say with the jaundiced eye.
- Sort of like being, you know, looking at things, as we say with the jaundiced eye.
Examples
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Arkady admitted his attitude was unfair, jaundiced, and corroded with envy.
Fiction book (1992) -
Ivor looked at the man with a jaundiced eye.
Fiction book (1990) -
One of the reasons I cast a very jaundiced eye toward models.
Blog text (2) -
To Buck's jaundiced eye, they both looked a lot too pleased with themselves.
Fiction book (1998) -
European intellectuals, in general, whether of the right or the left, have usually taken a jaundiced view of bourgeois society.
Academic text (1999) -
As this summary might suggest, realism has a rather dystopian and jaundiced view of the world.
Academic text (2010) -
It's why, after all, biographers take such a careful, indeed jaundiced view of their subjects' autobiographies and memoirs.
Blog text (11) -
The place looked to Sparhawk's somewhat jaundiced eye like a country fair operated by a profoundly color-blind entrepreneur.
Fiction book (1993) -
His jaundiced attitude towards the project stemmed from jealousy of his colleagues' success.
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After being overlooked for promotion, she developed a jaundiced perspective on her workplace.
Synonyms
24
5.0
Having an unfair dislike for a person or group because of who they are
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Etymology
Jaundiced A helpful way to remember this meaning is that the word comes from the old French word jaune ('yellow'), which people used as an image of a 'stained' or bitter view. So if you are jaundiced about something, you look at it with suspicion or an unfair negative feeling.