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jaun·diced

(jôn′dĭst, jän′-)

adj.

1. Affected with jaundice.

2. Yellow or yellowish.

3. Affected by or exhibiting envy, prejudice, or hostility.

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jaun•diced

(ˈdʒɔn dɪst, ˈdʒɑn-)

adj.

1. affected with or colored by or as if by jaundice: jaundiced skin.

2. affected with or exhibiting prejudice or distorted judgment: a jaundiced viewpoint.

[1630–40]

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Adj.	1.	jaundiced - affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc icteric, yellow unhealthy - not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers"
	2.	jaundiced - showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste; "looked with a jaundiced eye on the growth of regimentation"; "takes a jaundiced view of societies and clubs" discriminatory, prejudiced - being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand; "a prejudiced judge"

jaundiced

adjective cynical, bitter, hostile, prejudiced, biased, suspicious, partial, jealous, distorted, sceptical, resentful, envious, bigoted, spiteful, preconceived The two writers share a jaundiced vision of a tawdry modern Britain.
trusting, optimistic, naive, open-minded, unbiased, credulous, ingenuous

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Translations

distorto invidioso itterico

jaundiced

[ˈdʒɔːndɪst] ADJ

1. (Med) → con ictericia, que tiene ictericia

2. (fig) (= embittered) [person] → amargado, resentido; [attitude] → negativo, pesimista

3. (fig) (= disillusioned) → desilusionado

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jaundiced

[ˈdʒɔːndɪst] adj

[attitude, opinion, critic] → amer(amère)
To her jaundiced eye everything looked false → Tout paraissait faux à son regard amer.
to take a jaundiced view of sth → voir qch d'un mauvais œil

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jaundiced

adj

(lit) → gelbsüchtig

attitude → verbittert, zynisch; to take a jaundiced view of something → in Bezug auf etw (acc) → zynisch sein; to regard something with a jaundiced eye → eine zynische Einstellung zu etw haben

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jaundiced

[ˈdʒɔːndɪst] adj (fig) (cynical) → cinico/a (Med) → itterico/a
with a jaundiced eye → con occhio cinico
to have a jaundiced view of things → vedere le cose cinicamente

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jaundiced

a. ictérico-a, rel. a la ictericia o que padece de ella.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

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He looks upon life and all its affairs with the jaundiced eye of a pessimistic German philosopher.

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Then it fell for a tender moment on the jaundiced page of my old Boccaccio,--a rare edition, which I had taken from my knapsack to indulge myself with the appreciation of a connoisseur.

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For every hand seemed raised against me, though in reality it was the hand of fellowship that the world stretched out, and the other was the reading of a jaundiced eye.

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He scanned Shaftesbury Avenue with a jaundiced eye, and thought that he had never seen a beastlier thoroughfare.

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Not that he regarded the play of life about him with a jaundiced eye, but, rather, that his eyes became unseeing.

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That she should struggle against the fascinating influence of his delightful art - delightful nature I thought it then - did not surprise me either; for I knew that she was sometimes jaundiced and perverse.

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'you have forced the conviction that you are so, even on my once- jaundiced mind, and I believe you.

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Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts.

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He was trying to dismiss the whole thing from his mind--a feat which had hitherto proved beyond his powers--when Fate, in an unusually kindly mood, enabled him to do so in a flash by presenting to his jaundiced gaze what, on consideration, he decided was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.

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He looked at me with a jaundiced eye (there was no love lost between us), and declared at once that it was strange, very strange.