purgative
Example Sentences
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Taking out the trash is like administering a purgative to my house.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2019
The last act of a Shakespearean tragedy always brings such purgative reckonings.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2018
And this, too, felt like a purgative end to 2016.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017
It is Artenol, his new quarterly magazine, described on its website as “a purgative for an ailing art world, a palliative for afflicted aesthetes.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2015
Is there the purgative rhubarb or thyme that cures the long lethargy?
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
