emetic
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Nothing here feels cute, quaint or kitsch, though whimsy can fall that way, into a slough of soggy sentimentality sometimes laced with an emetic of twee.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018
In those days, the only available cure was tartar emetic, a compound of antimony that was administered as 12–16 injections given once a week.
From Nature • Nov. 7, 2017
Lee was more like the National Antidote—probably she would have preferred emetic, or gag reflex, something that expressed her unwillingness to humor the Chamber of Commerce or our contemporary age of ubiquity and oversaturation.
From Slate • Apr. 8, 2016
It was all a bit offputting as well as emetic.
From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2012
A doctor gave him a strong drug called an emetic, which made him vomit up the ball.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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