purgative
Example Sentences
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The juxtaposition of such a technologically enabled act — I recorded, therefore I was — and the most basic and purgative of elements invites irony where it is least wanted.
From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 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
Teddy Roosevelt also glorified war for its own sake, treating it as a refreshing purgative to enliven the spirit and a country’s greatness.
From Slate • Sep. 12, 2014
The doctor had given him a purgative and left.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
