Crossword-Solution: ASSASSINATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Assassination | n. | The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “ASSASSINATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ford's Theater event: Apr. 14, 1865 | 1 answer |
| TAKING the life of public personage for political motives | 1 answer |
| manslaughter | 12 answers |
| homicide | 16 answers |
| extermination | 19 answers |
| execution | 23 answers |
| butchery | 37 answers |
| mass murder | 40 answers |
| Murder ___ | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ASSASSINATION (5)
Thou methinks thou art he, Who planned the crime, aye, and performed it too, All save the assassination; and if thou Hadst not been blind, I had been sworn to boot That thou alone didst do the bloody deed.
Some netters put loaded phrases like `KGB', `Uzi', `nuclear materials', `Palestine', `cocaine', and `assassination' in their {sig block}s in a (probably futile) attempt to confuse and overload the creature.
Even those who had disliked his politics were horrified at the assassination of a President in a democratic state.
Assassination, however, is rampant, but even this could not have been the motive of my stealthy friend, for he might easily have killed me had he desired.
THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION Note.—The assassination of the Empress of Austria at Geneva, September 10, 1898, occurred during Mark Twain’s Austrian residence.
Quotes with ASSASSINATION (3)
The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the ordinary detective. The ordinary detective goes to pot-houses to arrest thieves; we go to artistic tea-parties to detect pessimists. The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed. We have to trace the origin of those dreadful thoughts that drive men …
1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West Pakistan.... This led to a moral and political catastrophe the effects of which are still sorely felt. Kissinger’s undisclosed reason for the ‘tilt’ was the supposed but never materialised ‘brokerage’ offered by the dictator Yahya Khan in the course of secret diplomacy between Nix…
If someone had told Allie that she would commit a premeditated act of murder, she would not have believed it. She would have spouted off all the reasons how she could never be capable of such a thing — that no matter how dire the circumstances, she would find a better way. She was so naive, so arrogant to think that the laws of necessity and unthinkable circumstance could not apply to her. She could tell herself that this was an act of mercy, but that would be a lie. This was…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1980).