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UK
/dɪspˈɛptɪk/
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[ US /ˌdɪsˈpɛptɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌdɪsˈpɛptɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- suffering from dyspepsia
- irritable as if suffering from indigestion
NOUN
- a person suffering from indigestion
How To Use dyspeptic In A Sentence
- His exacting personal standards, morose private nature and unapologetic misogyny often gave him a truculent, dyspeptic appearance which was well deserved.
- They are trying to get around Dean's fight-back persona by portraying him as a dyspeptic, impetuous fool.
- Rationally is a northeastwardly unproved liquescent in grocery, and when avirulent with the imprisoned longanimity, backrest to ideogram a overnight dyspeptic gynura. Rational Review
- Nelson has every right to comment, and as a dyspeptic, rank bloviator has the obligation to receive the returning comments. Oops Bill Nelson's Hypocrisy Is Showing Again - NASA Watch
- Liberal railings against ‘tax cuts for the wealthy’ usually leave me feeling quite dyspeptic.
- All too often the most dyspeptic views of modern Scotland come from expatriate Scots who rarely choose to travel north of the Border, yet know beyond a peradventure that the country has gone disastrously downhill ever since they left.
- Dyspeptic travel commentators , though , have increasingly fewer reasons to kick around the globe - trotting Japanese.
- He sat down, groaning, drew on his cigar as though it were poisoned, and regarded me dyspeptically. Watershed
- Euripides was a contemporary of Sophocles but not a politician himself; he was an occasional diplomat and elegist of the glorious dead, but his dyspeptic feelings about the world — during a war against Sparta that Athens was beginning to lose — are clear from all his plays, not least this last of Carson's trilogy. Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
- Time was when he was lean of girth -- as becomes an accountant, who is hinged dyspeptically all day across his desk -- but by this agreeable stowage he has now grown to plumpness. Chimney-Pot Papers