tS=However noble, Levin's <b>costive</b> crusade doesn't make for interesting TV.<br><br>A former student recalled the poet "looking unexpectedly big and speaking in an expectedly <b>costive</b> British voice."&tQ=<b>Costive</b> means:&tC=Slow|Fanatical|Tedious|Sincere|Pleading&cC=1&fB=Technically, <b>costive</b> means suffering from constipation; constipated. Figuratively it means slow in action or in expressing ideas, opinions, etc. <b>Costive</b> is pronounced Cohs-tihv.
