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dys·pep·tic

(dis-pep'tik),

Relating to or suffering from dyspepsia.

dyspeptic

(dĭs-pĕp′tĭk)

adj.

1. Relating to or having dyspepsia.

2. Of or displaying a morose or irritable disposition.

A person who is affected by dyspepsia.

dys·pep′ti·cal·ly adv.

dys·pep·tic

(dis-pep'tik)

Relating to or having dyspepsia.

dyspeptic

(dĭs-pĕp′tĭk)

1. Affected with or pert. to dyspepsia.

2. One afflicted with dyspepsia.

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he gasped, with a face of beetroot, while Lord John and I smiled in sympathy and Summerlee, like a dyspeptic goat, wagged his head in sardonic disagreement.

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Well, Fan is rather under the weather; says she 's dyspeptic, which means cross.

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Every word both the Doctor and Rose uttered hit the good lady in her weakest spot, and as she looked and listened a long array of bottles and pill-boxes rose up before her, reproaching her with the "ignorance and want of thought" that made her what she was, a nervous, dyspeptic, unhappy old woman.