A dyspeptic is usually a pessimist, and an optimist always keeps a bright mood. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind and Its Education] Reference
And Cheney/Halliburton (a kind of dyspeptic walrus android). From Wordnik.com. [America: The country where politicians give the finger to the majority of the citizens] Reference
Once, when a miserable-looking dyspeptic called upon. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
These dyspeptic times have put me in curmudgeon mode. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Bora, Bora, Bora] Reference
Our food was simple enough for the most dyspeptic homoeopathist. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
It is not the kind of food that makes a dyspeptic, but the quantity. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
The unconscious dyspeptic constitutes an extremely frequent variety. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference
The central tenet of this dyspeptic corporate vision is the Dilbert Principle. From Wordnik.com. [Working In Dilbert's World] Reference
Secretary of State, and dyspeptic editorials from the state media are coming fast. From Wordnik.com. [South China Sea Ructions] Reference
Such a walk is tonic and medicinal, and should be prescribed to dyspeptic patients. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
Every chance-comer was instantaneously gauged as dyspeptic or eupeptic, friend or foe. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
But not even this year's dyspeptic electorate finds all politicians equally aggravating. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, Melancholy Conservatives!] Reference
Some of John McCain's rhetoric has suggested that he adheres to this dire, dyspeptic view. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Rest] Reference
Want to defend John Bolton, the president's dyspeptic nominee to be ambassador to the U.N.?. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: McCain's Moment] Reference
A tired dyspeptic, with a dusty patch of hair and rabbit teeth, approached him when he entered. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
I learned from my friend, the dyspeptic professor, that over forty dialects are spoken in Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
The most recent case is that of Dr. Richardson, who was a dyspeptic during the whole time he was a smoker. From Wordnik.com. [Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life] Reference
An excited little man ran into the dingy room, and began a whispered conversation with the tired dyspeptic. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Under no circumstances allow the aged, dyspeptic, or those in delicate health to eat them except when mashed. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast Dainties] Reference
The general health suffers if the pain is severe and persistent, and patients become pale, dyspeptic, and weak. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
Nothing is more certain to destroy the appetite of a nervous dyspeptic than a napkin that smells of greasy soap. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Dresden, full of life and song, but who complains ruefully that the potatoes of Berlin are violently anti-dyspeptic. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
The dyspeptic and volcanic Lewis Black, who used to be a weekly feature on the show, is rarely, alas, seen these days. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Mann: The Daily Show Needs Some Upgrades] Reference
Like Sally, the dyspeptic 10-year-old, we're all more prone to illness and death when our family members are in trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Family Matters] Reference
How can a dyspeptic who dwells in the darkness of a disease, be a guiding light to the multitudes who beset him every hour?. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle," than for a dyspeptic person to be gentle, meek, long-suffering. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Conduct] Reference
He had been for a number of years dyspeptic, and this, no doubt, clouded his temper and caused many of the bitter things he said. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
His is the clinical, mordant, often disdainful amusement of a dyspeptic anthropologist studying a tribe he heartily disapproves of. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Wolfe's Rooftop Yawp] Reference
They are never whipped, and eat as much pastry as they think proper; whereby they grow up dyspeptic and rational beyond their years. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Lyly says, in a dyspeptic moment, 'So much wit is sufficient for a woman as when she is in the rain can warn her to come out of it.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
A dyspeptic from Vermont came to me who for ten years had eaten three hearty meals daily, none of which had ever satisfied his hunger. From Wordnik.com. [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference
Even the most dyspeptic of the guests had acknowledged at breakfast, some hours ago now, that a lovelier day could hardly be imagined. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
Fact is, my beloved brethren, I've ben a fust-chop dyspeptic for the best part o 'my life, an' I'm pooty wal posted in what I'm talkin 'about. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
O dear! what a dyspeptic we should have in six months; and all the hydropathic institutes in the country could never keep him alive five years. From Wordnik.com. [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference
French, satiate me with their cleverness; but they are vain, hollow, cynical, dyspeptic; they appeal to the head, but the heart goes empty away. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
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