indigestive
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of indigestive
Example Sentences
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He expresses adoration for his wife with indigestive grunts and coddles his daughter by saying "Such a very red little rose."
From Time Magazine Archive
There were two soups, three fishes, dozens of entrées, three or four joints—the mere memory of it is indigestive.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891 by Various
She was a cousin,—an indigestive single woman, who called her rigidity religion, and her liver love.
From Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles
She was the soft, damp, fat, sighing, indigestive, clinging, melancholy, depressingly hopeful kind.
From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
Digestive, indigestive torpor is also torpor of the sense of responsibility.
From The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure by Dewey, Edward Hooker
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