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
She was the soft, damp, fat, sighing, indigestive, clinging, melancholy, depressingly hopeful kind.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
So, scorning indigestive ache, I count each anxious minute; Oh, waiter, hurry up that steak!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891 by Various
She was a cousin,—an indigestive single woman, who called her rigidity religion, and her liver love.
From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
I think that, after all, when we look back upon a hundred years through which the country has passed, the vista is not so disheartening as to the indigestive fancy it might at first appear.
From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett) Reed
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