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Recent Examples of costive
In fact, their writings are more pungent now that they have been liberated from the costive confines of the movement.
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Jacob Heilbrunn,
The New Republic,
23 Jan. 2020
Movies coiled up in other movies have a habit of becoming either costive or cute, but somehow Falardeau avoids the traps.
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Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
15 May 2017
Jacob Heilbrunn,
The New Republic,
23 Jan. 2020
Movies coiled up in other movies have a habit of becoming either costive or cute, but somehow Falardeau avoids the traps.
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Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
15 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for costive
Adjective
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There’s a cast of wanderers, visionaries, and itinerants, the self-educated and self-published, a long lineage of cranks and outcasts, mostly penurious, always opinionated, stretching away into the mists of pseudohistory.
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Then the usually penurious Indians suddenly splurged.
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Suzanne’s ungenerous view of herself is one of many misperceptions that will be overturned—some gently, some not.
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There’s a generous and an ungenerous reading of Carole Radziwill returning to RHONY.
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This is the most parsimonious way to account for the unified nature of consciousness, according to subcorticalists.
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What fraction visible at basically every U.S. gas station originated as a parsimonious response to a 1932 one-penny gas tax?
Adjective
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Koenig’s former Yankees teammates were contemptuous of that miserly decision.
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The film is set in Mumbai and built around a miserly protagonist whose circumstances spiral into escalating absurdity.
Adjective
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Across 15 tracks, the rapper and producer get to work making their first proper body of work together as memorable as expected, delving into relationship mishaps, selfish tendencies, and the absurdist comedy that is real life.
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Politics, Lander said, didn’t have to be a selfish endeavor driven by ego.
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Too many become uncharitable to the policies that helped them and the immigrants who followed.
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There is no need to be uncharitable.
Adjective
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Royce Lewis and Victor Caratini hit back-to-back homers, Zebby Matthews pitched seven stingy innings and the Minnesota Twins held off a late rally by the Houston Astros for a 5-4 victory Monday night.
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Argentina having one of the game’s greatest strikers ever, depth and a stingy defense is enough to make the squad a good bet to make another deep run.
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Dobie’s cantankerous, tightfisted father and sweet, harebrained mother were played by the characters actors Frank Faylen and Florida Friebus.
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The ambience reflects Hankey’s tightfisted approach to his seven companies, which include a Toyota dealership, a dealer management software developer and Midway Car Rental, which does a big business renting exotic cars.
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“Costive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/costive. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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