How to Use jaundiced in a Sentence

jaundiced

adjective
  • She has a very jaundiced view of politics and politicians.
  • Some take a jaundiced view of the von Anhalt-Gabor union.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2018
  • This was received in some quarters with a jaundiced eye.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Your kid/the book’s protagonist has a more jaundiced view.
    Shannon Reed, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In this jaundiced view, the goal of architecture is to disguise, not reveal, the structure of our days.
    Curbed, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Not every insider has a jaundiced view of the business.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Above a card table, a single lamp casts smoky, jaundiced yellows.
    Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
  • Welsh Lupica went through his TitleMax training with a more jaundiced eye than Brown had.
    Margaret Coker, ProPublica, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Running through several of the pieces is a jaundiced, scalding eye on the intrusions of a White world in a city that has been racially riven for decades.
    Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Many a student has cast a jaundiced eye upon the very conception of humanism.
    Rick Moody, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Many of the Foreign Service officers who emerged from these postings did so with a somewhat jaundiced view of Russia.
    Keith Gessen, New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • Maps to the Stars’ David Cronenberg casts a jaundiced eye upon the lifestyles of the rich and famous in this darkly comic 2014 drama set in Hollywood.
    Matt Cooperlistings Coordinator, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • On the surface, the material’s jaundiced view of human nature seems perfect for him.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 25 Dec. 2021
  • This misandry is of a piece with the collection’s generally jaundiced outlook.
    Dexter Palmer, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • This play by British playwright Kieran Lynn casts a jaundiced eye on the lenders who offer short-term, high-interest loans to people who would not be likely to have any luck with a bank.
    Punch Shaw, star-telegram.com, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Pearce’s jaundiced way with a comeback, however, is most welcome.
    Michael Phillips, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
  • For that precise reason, the Huskies must make a statement, or at least as much of one as possible, to an audience that is once again looking at their warmup games with a jaundiced eye.
    Larry Stone, The Seattle Times, 31 Aug. 2017
  • But unfortunately the Palatine, the source of enough raw beauty and history and buried mystery to restore the rosy tint of Rome to any jaundiced eye, has nothing for rent.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 1 June 2017
  • The sick arrived at Gorrie’s door jaundiced and dehydrated and shivering with fever.
    Amy Brady, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Contrary to the jaundiced press reports that appear every year around race time, the Mint Julep is a fine libation when made with 4 ounces bourbon, 6 sprigs of mint, 2 tablespoons simple syrup, and shaved ice.
    The Cocktail Correspondent, WIRED, 5 May 1997
  • Tessa’s younger brother, Xander, is a chess genius and social misfit whose take on his surroundings is just as jaundiced.
    Michael Upchurch, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2019
  • A reader might expect Dom’s friends and family to be skeptical about his trip to outer space, but Jerome, along with his wife, Rachel, has a fairly jaundiced opinion about the church’s mission, too.
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
  • After noting the jaundiced pallor of Miller’s skin, a doctor cut into the abdomen and examined the internal organs.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2020
  • While the interactions could be viewed as routine business (and the deal never materialized), Farrow casts them in a more jaundiced light.
    Marisa Guthrie, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2019
  • The jaundiced perspective of their previous work suggests a willful travesty of Dickens in the making.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2020
  • In the jaundiced calculus of Beltway reporting, these things are similar—nothing more than electoral ploys to alter the parties’ prospects.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Their jaundiced characters are the anti-heroes Brexit-era Britain deserves.
    The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • There's a sanctimonious part of me that would delight in persuading you to ignore this NCAA men's basketball tournament or, at the very least, to observe it from a jaundiced viewpoint.
    Jerry Brewer, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Trump had just returned from a trip to Europe when the latest bad news broke, blotting out coverage of his speech defending Western values in Poland and casting a jaundiced light on his first meeting with Putin.
    David Von Drehle, Time, 13 July 2017
  • The hulking figure begins to stretch and morph, his jaundiced skin ripping into ragged orifices, out of which crawl variations on the archetypes Kinnear has been evoking throughout the film: a sneering landlord.
    Katie Rife, Vulture, 23 May 2022

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