truth serum

NOUN
  1. an intravenous anesthetic drug that has a hypnotic effect; induces relaxation and weakens inhibitions; is believed to induce people to talk freely
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How To Use truth serum In A Sentence

  • Obama needs to inject some truth serum into the banking discussion.
  • It most famously can be a truth serum for the untruthful, though that wasn't a problem yet in our trial. FATAL FLAW
  • It most famously can be a truth serum for the untruthful, though that wasn't a problem yet in our trial. FATAL FLAW
  • Her directness was a kind of disturbing truth serum, which quickly got to the core of the matter at hand. Portrait of An Artist
  • Can you also explain why Casey cannot be forced to either take a lie detector test…although since she is so good at lieing,,,who knows how that would turn up….but also what about injecting her with truth serum…..knock her out and see what she has to say….. lorrie Chloroform and Caylee
  • Unfortunately, truth serum, first used on spies in World War II, makes suspects gabby but not necessarily truthful.
  • After being injected with a truth serum, Catherine tells the story of her partner's death that features a central character more degenerate than decent.
  • Price, and after questioning him under truth serum, Solar Guard security officers found the man's mind to be so filled with criminal plots and counter-plots, it would take several weeks for the psychograph analyst to learn the name of the man he claimed would know the whereabouts of On the Trail of the Space Pirates
  • When that fails, Marlowe is held hostage at Amthor's "sanitarium," a front for his blackmailing ring, and drugged with a truth serum to get him to talk. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
  • It most famously can be a truth serum for the untruthful, though that wasn't a problem yet in our trial. FATAL FLAW
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