(1) Former UBS chief economist George Magnus called the comments from Navarro about the euro “hogwash” because it was not “Germany’s currency to influence or manage”.
(2) Those accusations are absolute rubbish – hogwash."
(3) Critchlow puts in a valiant effort during a visit to a community initiative with Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, who dismisses as "hogwash" the idea that the Tories have given up.
(4) The idea that the leadership doesn’t understand how bad the problems are and that foreign experts have a much better idea of what is going on in the Chinese system I think are hogwash.
(5) Because this is what happens in a hermetic system defined – more narrowly by the day, and especially by night – on the catchphrasing of hogwash and the homiletics of hokum ethics.
(6) On the day of the Newtown school shootings in the US the host angrily confronted members of the pro-gun movement on his nightly show, denouncing as "total hogwash" their argument that more guns mean less crime.
(7) Harald Heubaum from the University of London said the idea that shale gas prices could be as low as the US was "fanciful thinking" and that Cameron's suggestion fracking could play a role in the current stand-off with Russia was "hogwash".
(8) It’s a bunch of hogwash to think that his medical condition is going to cause him any more pain than anybody else,” he claimed.
(9) 4.06pm BST In a time of rigid partisanship, no issue is so purely polar as "Benghazi," with one side framing it as an historically significant crisis and the other side calling it hogwash.
(10) That is hogwash.” He insists Poland can achieve western-level economic development while maintaining age-old traditional Polish values and remaining a homogenous white Catholic country.
(11) The argument that London or any other city should protect its antiquated cabs from competition is simply hogwash.
(12) The statement runs counter to the view of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, who insists any link between climate change and bushfires is “complete hogwash” .
Purgative
Definition:
(a.) Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.
(n.) A purging medicine; a cathartic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The timely discovery of the cause of the disease leads to the discontinuance of the use of diuretics and purgatives and to complete recovery.
(2) The effectiveness of short-term, low-dose, preoperative oral administration of neomycin and erythromycin base combined with vigorous purgation in reducing the incidence of wound infections and other septic complications of elective colon and rectal operations has been studied in a prospective, randomized, double-blind, clinical trial.
(3) These results agree with recent observations on the effects of senna in rats and mice, and do not support earlier claims that myenteric neurons are killed by anthraquinone purgatives.
(4) This paper reported the results of clinical observation on a treatment with Semen Persical decoction for purgation with addition (SPDPA) in type II diabetes mellitus.
(5) E. hortense adult worms were recovered from one patient after a treatment and purgation.
(6) The standard preparation for cleansing the colon usually involves dietary restrictions, purgatives, and enemas.
(7) The purgative activities of 18 different dihydroxyanthracene derivatives, including free anthraquinones and anthrones, were investigated by determining their influence on the water, sodium and potassium absorption in the gastrointestinal tract by direct injection of the solutions in Tyrode to the rat colon in situ.
(8) Some cultural groups also have a tradition of giving purgatives to the newborn, a practice which exacerbates the dehydration effects of not breastfeeding.
(9) Rats and mice were given purgative doses of sennosides in their drinking water for 4 and 5 months, respectively.
(10) These actions can lead to a new dark age of "chemotherapeutic blood letting and purgatives" under the guise of higher ethical purposes.
(11) Poor prognosis was most commonly linked to use of purgatives.
(12) 140 patients were prepared with conventional enema and purgatives and a Neomycin-metronidazole prophylaxis.
(13) Compared to women who had never used purgatives, current purgative users were 4.1 times more likely to smoke (44% vs 11%) and 2.7 times as likely to use drugs (33% vs 12%).
(14) Purgatives, emetics, opium, cinchona bark, camphor, potassium nitrate and mercury were among the most widely used drugs.
(15) Purgation was induced by oral administration of arecoline and the purge examined for cestodes.
(16) From pseudocarps of R. wichuraiana, three quercetin glycosides, isoquercitrin, hyperin and quercetin 3-O-beta-D-glucuronide were isolated similarly, but no purgative components of R. multiflora were detected.
(17) The prevalence of binge-eating more than once a week, together with self-induced vomiting or purgative use, was 3.6% in the nursing school students, 2.1% in the college women, and 2.9% in the total sample.
(18) In many groups, substitute prelacteal feeds were given, while in others, practices such as the use of purgatives exacerbated the risk of dehydration in the infant.
(19) In mice experimentally invaded by H. nana it was shown that the water extraction of breadfruit tree substance is rather less effective than its ethanol extraction and has some purgative action, which increases the therapeutic effect.
(20) Twenty percent had at some time used diet pills, but only 4% were currently users; 13% had at some time used purgatives (vomiting, laxatives, or diuretics), but only 5% were current users.