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
Digestive, indigestive torpor is also torpor of the sense of responsibility.
From The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure by Dewey, Edward Hooker
She was a cousin,—an indigestive single woman, who called her rigidity religion, and her liver love.
From Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles
He took his usual poor eighteenpennyworth of food in his usual indigestive way, and had as little to say for himself as ever a wonderful man had.
From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles
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 Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett)
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