emetic
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It’s as if the very name of the man has on her an emetic effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
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
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
To bring them into balance, Dr. Harlow prescribes two powerful drugs—an "emetic" to make Phineas throw up and a "purgative," a powerful laxative, to evacuate his bowels.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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