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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.
—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.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for costive
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Even so, the general picture of a mother’s absence and a daughter’s understandable resentment at having had to pick up the maternal slack in penurious conditions comes through loud and clear.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024
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Enormous numbers of them have been uprooted from a satisfactory social position by war, revolution and inflation, and thrust out to seek an uncertain and penurious existence. . . .Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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This is the problem with the show: These women are just concocting reasons why the people on the other side suck, and it’s become the most uncharitable, the most ungenerous thing on Bravo.Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 July 2024
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While the initial batch of second-quarter earnings reports has been met by generally ungenerous market responses, the numbers themselves are solid.Michael Santoli, CNBC, 20 July 2024
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To articulate its outlines sufficiently is, almost by definition, to spill past time, to run counter to the withholding, parsimonious control that has characterized the Obamas all along.Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2024
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His parsimonious choice befitted a man for whom discipline in pursuit of victory is no vice and who jettisoned cargo-loads of ideological baggage to make his party an acceptable vehicle of protest.E.J. Dionne, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
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Smart Care can free up valuable storage space, an important function considering most Macs come with miserly amounts of storage.Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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Sneak-peek images of the one-time-only giveaway souvenirs had quickly been met with ridicule online for their ultra-minimalist design — seen by some as one last miserly indignity directed at a loyal fanbase.Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
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Not because Biden was selfish and ran for reelection.Ted Trimpa, The Denver Post, 12 Nov. 2024
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Perhaps a record of principled work for others should outweigh a record of selfish ambition.Keenan Robbins, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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An uncharitable soul could regard his output as elevated B-movies with ingenious elevator pitches, and this wouldn’t necessarily be wrong.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2024
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An uncharitable explanation would be that the courts seem keen on derailing one of Biden’s signature promises in advance of the November election.New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 July 2024
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It’s been a stingy game so far, with the two teams combining for only three hits.Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2024
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No team has been as stingy as the Chargers, who have given up an NFL-low 12.5 points per game going into Sunday’s game against the Denver Broncos.Elliott Teaford, Orange County Register, 10 Oct. 2024
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Every year, a complacent, tightfisted city council turned down the recommendations.Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
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Kotick played the tightfisted owner of the Oakland A’s.Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 31 May 2023
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“Costive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/costive. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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