Jaundiced means seeing everything sourly because of past disappointment. A jaundiced view, jaundiced about politics, take a jaundiced view.
The figurative sense comes from the medical one, since the old belief was that a person with jaundice saw everything tinged yellow. It nearly always appears as a jaundiced view or eye.
1adjectivejaundicedSeeing everything sourly because of past disappointment.
“After years of broken promises, he took a jaundiced view of anything politicians said.”
jaundiced is a quality.
The French behind it is yellow: the illness turns the skin that colour. A jaundiced view turns everything the same shade, and it never washes off.
hooks ontoyellow
From jaundice + -ed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA