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costive
having constipation; constipated


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and only the most costive liberal or chickenhawk conservative could fail to be charmed by the Frost and maple syrup patriots of the Second Vermont Republic, which drips Vermontishness.
Manchester disunited by Kauffman, Bill / The American Conservative
The trouble is that ministers then went on to propose a costive dribble of piecemeal "modern solutions".
Britain's busted flush by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
In the other literary worlds I am familiar with--the USA and France--their novelists seem positively costive compared to ours--always excluding the prodigious John Updike, of course.
William Boyd--the novelist as essayist by Thomas, Tony / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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