How to Use jaundiced in a Sentence

jaundiced

adjective
  • She has a very jaundiced view of politics and politicians.
  • But the carpet of gold on the roadside is a sign of a jaundiced landscape.
    — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Above a card table, a single lamp casts smoky, jaundiced yellows.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
  • This isn’t a rousing story of beating the odds, but one with a jaundiced outlook on life.
    — Chicago Tribune, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Pearce’s jaundiced way with a comeback, however, is most welcome.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018
  • Those of us who have watched Pakistan for decades, however, viewed the election with a more jaundiced eye.
    — C. Christine Fair, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2018
  • These jaundiced jokesters may have oversaturated the market, but that’s not their fault.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Many a student has cast a jaundiced eye upon the very conception of humanism.
    — Rick Moody, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
  • In this jaundiced view, the goal of architecture is to disguise, not reveal, the structure of our days.
    — Curbed, 4 Jan. 2023
  • This misandry is of a piece with the collection’s generally jaundiced outlook.
    — Dexter Palmer, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • On the surface, the material’s jaundiced view of human nature seems perfect for him.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 25 Dec. 2021
  • Welsh Lupica went through his TitleMax training with a more jaundiced eye than Brown had.
    — Margaret Coker, ProPublica, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Jaxon’s mother was in and out of the hospital with liver and kidney problems that were so dire, her jaundiced eyes turned as yellow as a highlighter pen.
    — Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 7 May 2026
  • The sick arrived at Gorrie’s door jaundiced and dehydrated and shivering with fever.
    — Amy Brady, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Denering’s time in Hollywood’s trenches has given him a jaundiced view toward celebrity.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Their jaundiced characters are the anti-heroes Brexit-era Britain deserves.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Even for music industry pundits, the jaundiced eye can paint him as one more hip-hop bro-country expansion, albeit one with some serious facial ink.
    — Holly Gleason, Variety, 2 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The jaundiced perspective of their previous work suggests a willful travesty of Dickens in the making.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • None of this invalidates casting a jaundiced eye toward the absurd aspects of award shows, or the idea of trying to get music, pop or TV stars to laugh at themselves.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Stroker & Hoop is playing in the same ’70s sandbox as the cult-classic film The Nice Guys but with an even more jaundiced worldview.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Though undeniably popular, social media is regarded now with an increasingly jaundiced eye, as the suits against Meta have proved.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • But underneath, this micro-budget B movie is a jaundiced lament for the death of American individualism.
    — Time, 10 June 2026

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