Sentence examples for dyspeptic from inspiring English sources

The word 'dyspeptic' is correct and usable in written English
It is often used to describe someone who is in a state of irritability or bad mood, particularly related to digestion or stomach discomfort. Example: The dyspeptic old man grumbled and complained about every little thing, making it difficult for anyone to be around him.

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dyspeptic

adjective

Of, relating to, or having dyspepsia or indigestion.

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But Considine accepts that he hasn't helped himself with some dyspeptic interviews he has given.

Updated at 11.17am ET Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 11.04am ET16 04 Obama: 'people are completely fed up' The president is stern, taking his slightly pained, mildly dyspeptic tone: There's been a lot of discussion of the politics.

America is in the mood for Adams's dyspeptic common sense.

Although Britons usually take a dyspeptic view of their representatives, there is a different, bloodier mood now.

The Epicureans feared love as a kind of madness that overcomes the rational soul in the fourth book of his "De Rerum Natura", Lucretius gives a marvellously dyspeptic account of romance that is convincing if you have just fallen out of love but unpersuasive if you are falling in.

In 1992 it launched "The Larry Sanders Show", a dyspeptic comedy about a talk-show host.

Dyspeptic bond markets are now pushing Spain and others towards reforms that make it easier and cheaper to lay off workers again.

A thin, dyspeptic man faultlessly dressed in black broadcloth, he leans over his desk, and brushes slavery impatiently aside.

Better-received were Hoffa (1992), in which he portrayed the controversial Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, and A Few Good Men (1992), in which his supporting performance as a dyspeptic marine colonel earned him his 10th Oscar nomination, an all-time record for a male actor.

Howard Jacobson not only set his attack-dog writer-narrator loose on our dumbed-down post-print culture in the glorious dyspeptic arias of Zoo Time (Bloomsbury, £18.99), but made his grumpy hero a classic fool for love.

In Paris, where a heretofore undistinguished bond trader for the Banque de France, feeling a little dyspeptic, and aware that his trading account was considerably in the red, climbed out on to the waste pipes of the Pompidou Centre after a particularly large and fishy lunch.

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