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nostrums
noun
(nos-trum)
hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists
Synonyms:
catholicon
, cure-all,
panacea
,
nostrums
noun
(nos-trum)
patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable
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panacea
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cure-all
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cures
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bromides
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panaceas
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claptrap
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platitudes
,
dogma
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moralism
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pieties
,
keynesian
,
orthodoxies
,
doctrines
,
statism
,
dictums
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idiocies
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notions
,
sophistries
,
liberalism
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malthusianism
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pabulum
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utopianism
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heresies
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shibboleth
,
populism
,
syllogisms
,
lunacies
,
utopians
,
maxims
,
moralizing
,
blather
,
mantras
,
hucksters
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statist
,
pseudo
,
fallacies
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inanities
,
verities
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leftism
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monetarism
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expedients
,
rationalism
,
axioms
,
reformism
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jeremiad
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theories
,
reaganomics
,
pablum
,
laissez faire
,
quackery
,
absolutism
,
globalism
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mumbo jumbo
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attitudinizing
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exhortations
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tautologies
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welfarism
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redistributionist
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ideologies
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balderdash
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technocracy
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idolatries
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statists
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marxism
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canards
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regnant
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toryism
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hagiographies
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sanctimoniousness
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popery
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catchwords
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keynes
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commonplaces
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flapdoodle
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libertarianism
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delusion
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pietists
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medievalism
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conservatism
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social darwinism
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materialist
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buncombe
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rhetoric
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precepts
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crackpot
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priggishness
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charlatanry
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demagoguery
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trope
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booboisie
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ills
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john maynard keynes
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faddists
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thatcherism
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partyism
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scholasticism
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idealists
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monism
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irrationalism
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nostrums
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