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 the soft, damp, fat, sighing, indigestive, clinging, melancholy, depressingly hopeful kind.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
It is found that the stomach has the power of gradually accommodating indigestive powers to the food it habitually receives.
From American Woman's Home by Catharine Esther Beecher
She was a cousin,—an indigestive single woman, who called her rigidity religion, and her liver love.
From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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