NOSTRUM


Meaning of NOSTRUM in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But he is critical, too, of some liberal notions and nostrums about migration, refugees and asylum seekers.

Despite its flaws, politicians find this nostrum beguiling, since the costs are hidden from the public.

Praise of public wealth can face down the Tory nostrum that we each spend our own money better than the Government does.

The danger apprehended that quack nostrums in public policy can be forced upon the voters by demagogues is demonstrably nonexistent.

The doctor's nostrums were as likely to hasten death as delay it.

The old planners, with their Keynesian nostrums, were isolated.

These two forms of dissent coalesced in the demand for a stronger approach to the Tory nostrum of tariff reform.

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