dyspeptic
adjective
pertaining to, subject to, or suffering from dyspepsia.
dyspeptically
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a word derived from
dyspeptic.
Example Sentences
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Less scary than driven and dyspeptically funny, the title character of this mordant comedy is on a mission.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2018
Save for 1989’s Oh Mercy, his first collaboration with producer Daniel Lanois, Dylan’s 1980s records were dyspeptically reviewed and later lumped together as gawkily, half-heartedly crafted detritus.
From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2014
Why, she wondered, does the Book Review, the last freestanding book section in the nation, so often treat books so dyspeptically?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2013
But everybody else is speaking his mind, often dyspeptically and hilariously.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2010
He spent his days muttering dyspeptically to himself and singing naughty sea chanteys, with the occasional random earsplitting screech thrown in just to make you jump.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
