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Definition of Starchier
1. starchy [adj] - See also: starchy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Starchier
Literary usage of Starchier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"But for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner-or Southron,
according to Sir Walter's starchier way of phrasing it—would be wholly modern, ..."
2. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"But for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner—or Southron,
according to Sir Walter's starchier way of phrasing it—would be wholly modern, ..."
3. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1899)
"But for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner—or Southron,
according to Sir Walter's starchier way of phrasing it—would be wholly modern, ..."
4. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1903)
"But for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner — or Southron,
according to Sir Walter's starchier way of phrasing it — would be wholly ..."
5. On Contemporary Literature by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1917)
"But for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner—or Southron,
according to Sir Walter's starchier way of phrasing it—would be wholly modern, ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1873)
"... viz., oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon, and requires for its support fat, starchier
sugar, or other digestible food composed of those substances, ..."
7. Women and the Trades by Elizabeth Beardsley Butler (1909)
"One woman who has known the laundry business for years, first as a starchier
fourteen years old, and later as a forewoman, told me of the time when she ..."
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