Medicine That Doesnt Actually Contain Medicine Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 11, 2023

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	noun • an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug • (Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead
	17%	9		How things actually are
	noun • the state of actually existing objectively
	17%	7		Person who pretends to be pious but is actually deceitful
	noun • a habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying)

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