gruel
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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
Billy coughed when the door was opened, and when he coughed he shit thin gruel.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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
These preparations are found valuable to mix with wheaten flour for bread, to make biscuits, pastry, pie-crusts, and for all soups, gruels, and panada.
From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner
Liquid or Fluid Diet.—Consisting of milk, nutrient and other palatable beverages, broths, and thin gruels.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit
We do not advocate the giving of beef tea and beef juices to children; as a rule, we think that cereal, gruels, strained soups, and milk are preferable.
From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler
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