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costive
adjective as in stingy
adjective as in constipated
Weak matches
Example Sentences
In the beginning the island was costive, quiet, so empty of visitors that it was possible now and then to sense the time before such places became spoiled, became subject to their capacity for infinite reproduction.
See them disappear into a k-hole while actually eating Special K to ease their costive and ageing bowels!
The second fragment or thesis treats of “disorders of the bowels,” which suggests already that the aphorist is a costive sort, disgorging small verities with considerable effort.
Silver service, indeed – the wings of flustered gulls were caught by the carvery’s shiny and retinal cover, their costive cries – Sheeeeit!
Movies coiled up in other movies have a habit of becoming either costive or cute, but somehow Falardeau avoids the traps.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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