gruel
Example Sentences
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But in terms of its actual content, the statement was pretty thin gruel, bristling with public relations-style circumlocution and vagueness.
From Los Angeles Times
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
By historical standards that’s pretty thin gruel, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says it even might overstate job creation.
From MarketWatch
“The market had expected a confident story of further margin development and was instead served a thin gruel as far as 2030 guidance was concerned.”
“You know, kids in other countries have no choice. They have to eat gruel for every meal.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
