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
The pulse is small, feeble and frequent, and the bowels costive.
From An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time by B. L. (Benjamin L.) Hill
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 William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
