emetic

Example Sentences

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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

Lee was more like the National Antidote—probably she would have preferred emetic, or gag reflex, something that expressed her unwillingness to humor the Chamber of Commerce or our contemporary age of ubiquity and oversaturation.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2016

It is a vivid and emetic portrait of rural change and urban corruption.

From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2013

Fortunately, it proved emetic; and her stomach having rejected all that she had swallowed, she was restored to health, though her recovery was for some time doubtful.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer