costive
Example Sentences
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Movies coiled up in other movies have a habit of becoming either costive or cute, but somehow Falardeau avoids the traps.
From The New Yorker • May 5, 2017
His stories are carried along, too, by an exceptionally easygoing and seductive narrative voice, what the costive Henry James described as his acolyte’s enviable “flow.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2016
Yet at the same time there was something costive about Johns, in sharp contrast to the effusive generosity of Robert Rauschenberg's vision.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was of a costive, dyspeptic habit, which has been entirely removed.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
Some Patients are costive, others frequently have small Stools, without the least Relief accruing from them.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
