(adjective) tending to contract or bind; astringent / (adjective) tending to check bleeding / (noun) a stick of a medicated styptic substance for use especially in shaving to stop the bleeding from small cuts
when one of the Twelve Monkeys interrupts to ask whether it’d be fair to characterize this new ad as Negative, Murphy gives him a styptic look and spells “r-e-s-p-o-n-s-e” out very slowly