as in irritable
having or showing a habitually bad temper
as might be expected, the newspaper's resident curmudgeon took a dyspeptic view of the whole affair
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Recent Examples of dyspeptic
Better is Danny Elfman’s spartan and fraught score, particularly the dyspeptic drums.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
But Kael sensed in her less dyspeptic moments that there was something special about Redford.
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Stephen Galloway,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Sep. 2025
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
But Kael sensed in her less dyspeptic moments that there was something special about Redford.
—
Stephen Galloway,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dyspeptic
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Cancer could be affectionate and chatty one moment, and withdrawn and irritable the next, with little to no explanation.
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They can be withdrawn or irritable.
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Last week, Dipke traveled to several Indian cities, joining thousands of angry demonstrators to demand the education minister’s removal.
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Played by House of the Dragon’s Milly Alcock, Kara’s path crosses that of an angry, sword-wielding teenager, Ruthye Marye Knoll (Eve Ridley), who seeks revenge for her slain family.
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Sun shrinking and getting hotter; everything bilious, oxygenless, not great for living.
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Minaj’s bilious flurry is possibly related to claims that she is owed between $100 to 200 million related to her stake in Tidal, the music streaming service launched and spearheaded by Jay-Z in 2015 and was sold to Jack Dorsey’s company Square for $297 million in 2021.
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Still, the internet nurtures these Hobbesian, splenetic views.
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Meanwhile, the commentator and controversialist Piers Morgan, an obsessively close observer and relentless critic of Meghan, inevitably waded in with his usual splenetic views.
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Things seem to be going well; Lord Walder accepts Robb’s apology with cantankerous humor, and offers the Starks his full hospitality for the duration of the wedding.
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The source of Soloviev’s angst lay in part in growing up with a father who was one of the more imposing, cantankerous figures in the history of New York real estate — a demographic with stiff competition.
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There are also a lot of people who have never dreamed of being disagreeable in public, much less considered joining a raucous social movement.
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The disagreeable object proved no match for the most fertile person in Montana.
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Leach also would publicly call out his players and could get ornery when questioned about his team’s shortcomings.
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The rabbi is ornery, arrogant, sometimes cruel.
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Soft water contains few minerals and is acid.
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So, this is like an acid trip for me.
Cite this Entry
“Dyspeptic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dyspeptic. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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