dropsical

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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

The chief disease carrier is a dropsical old shark called Book Gresham, the tag end of Tuxahatchie's first family.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their dropsical limbs resemble a Pompeian fresco inflated with an air hose, even though the full-size sanguine drawing for the painting, which Picasso kept for himself, has the genuinely classicist air of unforced, continuous modeling.

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.

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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