arrestive
Americanadjective
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It was an arrestive rather than a beautiful face, though charming enough when she smiled.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
They were of a flamboyant Italian period, and more arrestive than distinguished.
From The Grey Room by Eden Phillpotts
The Swinburne collocation of delicate bosom and death is both arrestive and interesting.
From Ptomaine Street by Carolyn Wells
They give out arrestive thoughts, and you are vastly impressed, but on longer acquaintance, or on returning to them after an interval, you find that it is they who have been arrested by their thoughts.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
Similarly he could disguise his voice, the natural tones of which were low, monotonous, and of no arrestive quality.
From The Grey Room by Eden Phillpotts
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