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  • noun Plural form of dyspeptic.

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Examples

  • Even less, however, can I see a reason to let the dyspeptics have a go at running the country.

    America Disgruntlement Syndrome 2008

  • Even less, however, can I see a reason to let the dyspeptics have a go at running the country.

    Stromata Blog: 2008

  • Paraguay, across from the Medicine Pavilion with its harlequined maps of anatomy, bread made with seawater for dyspeptics, and twin exhibits: “A Curious Case of Sweating” and “Chest Development Due to Gymnastics.”

    The Voluptuous Dancing Girls of Egypt 2007

  • Paraguay, across from the Medicine Pavilion with its harlequined maps of anatomy, bread made with seawater for dyspeptics, and twin exhibits: “A Curious Case of Sweating” and “Chest Development Due to Gymnastics.”

    The Voluptuous Dancing Girls of Egypt 2007

  • Colorado is considered the finest in North America, and consumptives, asthmatics, dyspeptics, and sufferers from nervous diseases, are here in hundreds and thousands, either trying the

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • But I think that, in many ways, not using laugh tracks is misguided purism -- the networks bowing to the complaints of TV critics and other dyspeptics, and forgetting the good reasons why the laugh track was invented.

    Bring Back the Laugh Track! Jaime J. Weinman 2004

  • I dare say I know plenty of women dyspeptics, as long as dyspepsia is said to be our national ailment, but if I do I never hear them talk about it.

    From a Girl's Point of View Lilian Bell

  • I really do feel sorry for dyspeptics when I read a thing like that.

    From a Girl's Point of View Lilian Bell

  • Fish is less stimulating than meat, and is thus valuable as a food for invalids and dyspeptics.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • But I do say this: unless a man can talk of his trouble as cleverly as Carlyle -- and some of the choice dyspeptics I know can almost do that -- I want them not to talk at all.

    From a Girl's Point of View Lilian Bell

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