All 5 Uses of
dyspeptic
in
The House of Mirth
- He was a mournful dyspeptic, intent on finding out the deleterious ingredients of every dish and diverted from this care only by the sound of his wife's voice.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- It was not often that he found so ready an ear; and, being a man as well as a dyspeptic, it may be that as he poured his grievances into it he was not insensible to its rosy symmetry.†
Chpt 1.5
- The consequence is the dinner gets cold, and I have dyspepsia.†
Chpt 1.10 *
- Gad! what a study might be made of the tyranny of the stomach—the way a sluggish liver or insufficient gastric juices might affect the whole course of the universe, overshadow everything in reach—chronic dyspepsia ought to be among the "statutory causes"; a woman's life might be ruined by a man's inability to digest fresh bread.†
Chpt 2.1
- Here were Dorset and his wife once more presenting their customary faces to the world, she engrossed in establishing her relation with an intensely new gown, he shrinking with dyspeptic dread from the multiplied solicitations of the MENU.†
Chpt 2.3
Definitions:
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(dyspeptic as in: diet for dyspeptics) relating to indigestion (dyspepsia)
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(dyspeptic as in: dyspeptic attitude) irritable or tending towards a bad mood