All 8 Uses of
saccharine
in
1984 by Orwell
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- On to each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch — a metal pannikin of pinkish-grey stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet.†
p. 50..1
- Great areas of it, even for a Party member, were neutral and non-political, a matter of slogging through dreary jobs, fighting for a place on the Tube, darning a worn-out sock, cadging a saccharine tablet, saving a cigarette end.†
p. 74..1
- The queue edged forward till Winston was almost at the counter, then was held up for two minutes because someone in front was complaining that he had not received his tablet of saccharine.†
p. 111..9
- He had brought an envelope full of Victory Coffee and some saccharine tablets.†
p. 137..1
- Not saccharine, sugar.†
p. 140..8 *
- What was even better than the taste of the coffee was the silky texture given to it by the sugar, a thing Winston had almost forgotten after years of saccharine.†
p. 145..5
- It was saccharine flavoured with cloves, the speciality of the café.†
p. 287..6
- The cloves and saccharine, themselves disgusting enough in their sickly way, could not disguise the flat oily smell; and what was worst of all was that the smell of gin, which dwelt with him night and day, was inextricably mixed up in his mind with the smell of those.†
p. 288..3
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) More commonly, Saccharine refers to an artificial sweetener.