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dropsical

[drop-si-kuhl] / ˈdrɒp sɪ kəl /


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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

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

Is she thin, fat, dropsical, anemic, senile, kittenish or reptilian?

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the end of the table, sitting like a great dropsical gray slug, was William Willoughby, the political symbol of everything her father and men like him despised.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee


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