dropsical
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- dropsically adverb
- dropsicalness noun
- nondropsical adjective
- nondropsically adverb
- undropsical adjective
Etymology
Origin of dropsical
Example Sentences
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The chief disease carrier is a dropsical old shark called Book Gresham, the tag end of Tuxahatchie's first family.
From Time Magazine Archive
If those padded boys and dropsical nymphs, dreamily enacting their parodies of Arcadian life, were to assume the demanding criticality of real classical art, it would seem like a breach of etiquette.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the "huge, dropsical monster" known as the Associated Gas & Electric System was finally driven into reorganization proceedings in 1940, 40% of its billion-dollar bulk turned out to be bookkeeping water.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is she thin, fat, dropsical, anemic, senile, kittenish or reptilian?
From Time Magazine Archive
His skin was dead looking and hairless; dropsical too, he moved with a shambling gait like a trained bear.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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