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
If the Belly is remarkably full and costive, Glysters of warm Water and Salt should be injected.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
Nine of them were strong People, and had plethoric Symptoms, and were blooded in the Beginning; and seven of them were costive, and took a Dose of gentle laxative Physic before taking the Bark.
From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro
