emetic

Example Sentences

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The word itself – meaningless, infantile, a bit 80s and decidedly naff – is emetic enough without the inefficiency, the pointlessness, the utterly wasted time and opportunity of a procedure that fixes precisely nothing.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2020

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

Please tell me the most emetic fact about Zika that you know.

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2016

The market had overindulged in speculation and borrowing, and it was issuing its own emetic.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2015

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