gruel

That sort of bad art is thin gruel compared to really bad art: works that are ethically perverse, immoral or debauched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

It became something closer to porridge, or gruel, which delighted me.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

If you can have the "full-fat option", he asks, why would you go for the "fairly thin gruel" on offer at the moment?

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

By historical standards that’s pretty thin gruel, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says it even might overstate job creation.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

Mornings the door squealed open and a woman in a blue smock carried the plate of hot gruel to the cot.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Agriculture softened our ancestors’ diets with processed gruels, stews and yogurts, and this fare led to gradually shrinking lower jaws to produce today’s overcrowded mouths.”

From Fox News ● Mar. 18, 2019

Few had ever received Red Cross packages; their guards, almost to a man, had engaged in graft which cut prison fare to watery soups, half-spoiled vegetables, and chalky gruels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Good calves have been raised on gruels made of these meals, without any milk after the first two weeks.

From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden

Under the circumstances milk, albumen water and fine cereal gruels are the best foods from which to formulate the diet after the necessary period of abstinence and fluid diet.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit

The diet should be liquid, such as milk, beef tea, soups, and gruels.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) by Kenelm Winslow