Crossword-Solution: AUSTERITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Austerity | n. | Sourness and harshness to the taste. |
| Austerity | n. | Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline. |
| Austerity | n. | Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity. |
We have 94 clues for the answer “AUSTERITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| state of being austere | 1 answer |
| Condition in post-war British economy. | 1 answer |
| Cause for budget cutting | 1 answer |
| British program of belt-tightening. | 1 answer |
| flagellation | 9 answers |
| FLOURISH (ant.) | 12 answers |
| ASCETICISM | 15 answers |
| muscular action | 19 answers |
| muscular reaction | 24 answers |
| lonesomeness | 29 answers |
| inhospitableness | 29 answers |
| infertility | 29 answers |
| drabness | 29 answers |
| desolateness | 29 answers |
| desertedness | 29 answers |
| waterlessness | 29 answers |
| bleakness | 30 answers |
| purposelessness | 30 answers |
| starkness | 30 answers |
| bareness | 31 answers |
| ALONENESS | 31 answers |
| cheerlessness | 31 answers |
| dreariness | 31 answers |
| Nakedness | 32 answers |
| loneliness | 34 answers |
| aridity | 34 answers |
| dryness | 35 answers |
| blankness | 35 answers |
| stiff neck | 37 answers |
| isolation | 40 answers |
| Baldness | 40 answers |
| Solitude | 40 answers |
| barrenness | 42 answers |
| Simplicity | 43 answers |
| futility | 49 answers |
| tightness | 49 answers |
| meagreness | 49 answers |
| meaninglessness | 50 answers |
| rigidity | 50 answers |
| abstinence | 51 answers |
| Malady | 51 answers |
| Indisposition | 52 answers |
| starvation | 53 answers |
| Emptiness | 56 answers |
| Mortification | 56 answers |
| Inflexibility | 56 answers |
| paucity | 57 answers |
| shortfall | 58 answers |
| Famine | 58 answers |
| Temperance | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMAEZC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with AUSTERITY (5)
The world decline in oil prices, however, has forced the government to launch an austerity program to cope with declining receipts and mounting foreign debts.
The government's tight controls on fish stocks and its austerity measures have caused a recession, and subsidy cuts will force further reductions in the fishing industry, which has already been plagued with bankrupcies.
Perhaps the picture of the childlike slave is also a reverse image of the sober, patronizing white master whose life was rooted in austerity.
The features expressed nothing of monastic austerity, or of ascetic privations; on the contrary, it was a bold bluff countenance, with broad black eyebrows, a well-turned forehead, and cheeks as round and vermilion as those of a trumpeter, from which descended a long and curly black beard.
The government's tight controls on fish stocks and its austerity measures have caused a recession, and subsidy cuts will force nationalization in the fishing industry, which has already been plagued with bankruptcies.
Quotes with AUSTERITY (3)
Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compress, compress... Actually, when you think about it, not many novels in the Spare tradition are terribly cheerful. Jokes you can usually pluck out whole, by the roots, so if you're doing some heavy-duty prose-weeding, they're the first to go. And there's some stuff about the whole wi…
PROPOSE DAY POEM: Austerity..If.. I were to define..it’s you.. yoo hoo!-Happiness is what.. that makes me feel divine.. smiling you.. yoo hoo!!-What rose is in flowers..What moon is in stars..That you are to me..You and I will be we..You’re my life.. I.. I..You’re my life.. I.. I..I love you.. yoo hoo I love you.. yoo hoo-O girl, O girl, O.. O.. girl.. you be mine..I love you.. I love you.. I love you.. yoo hoo.. You be my.. Valentine.-Just be mine.. I love you..O O Valentine!!!
It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the valley like a waterfall, like a tidal wave, all the leaves of the hardwoods from here to Hudson’s Bay. It was as if the season’s colors were draining away like lifeblood, as if the year were molting and shedding. The year was rolling down, and a vital curve had been reached, the tilt that gives way to headlong rush. And when the monarch butterflies had passed and were gone, the ski…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1951–2012).