Jaundiced

ˈdʒɔːndɪst

adjective

affected by bitterness, resentment, or envy

The word 'jaundiced' originally referred to a yellowish discoloration of the skin caused by liver problems, but it evolved to describe a negative or cynical outlook towards life or situations.

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.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

A swathe of dirty yellow sponge spilled out and shivered on the backseat like an immense jaundiced liver.

Arundhati Roy

The god of small things

Black men, white men, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Jews, Poles, whatever—all were inadequate and weak, all came under their jaundiced eyes and were the recipients of their disinterested wrath.

Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

'You should have been in bed an hour ago,' Ed told her, gazing at his daughter with a jaundiced eye.

King, Stephen

Apt Pupil

that an omnivorous being which can masticate, deglute, digest and apparently pass through the ordinary channel with pluterperfect imperturbability such multifarious aliments as cancrenous females emaciated by parturition, corpulent professional gentlemen, not to speak of jaundiced politicians and chlorotic nuns might possibly find gastric relief in an innocent collation of staggering bob, reveals as nought else could and in a very unsavoury light the tendency above alluded to.

James Joyce

Ulysses

“What do you think, Myra?” He pawed at the clothes hunched on a chair in their bedroom, while she moved about mysteriously adjusting and patting her petticoat and, to his jaundiced eye, never seeming to get on with her dressing.

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

Dost thou think that a false opinion has less power than the bile in the jaundiced or the poison in him who is bitten by a mad dog?

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

They are a deep responsibility and one I sometimes look at with a jaundiced eye.” Bellonda sniffed.

Frank Herbert

Chapterhouse: Dune