Crossword-Solution: BESETTING 9 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Besetting p. pr. & vb. n. of Beset
Besetting a. Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or
about; as, a besetting sin.

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Habitual 53 answers
Attacking 76 answers
General 85 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BESETTING (5)

SPERBERG-McQUEEN noted that one problem besetting electronic text has been the lack of adequate internal or external documentation for many existing electronic texts.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
Take it and you may live to avenge me, it is useless for me to attempt to worm my way into so small an opening with this horde of demons besetting us on all sides.” “Then we shall die together, Tars Tarkas,” I replied, “for I shall not go first.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Rather, they originated in a strange besetting desire to know what to do when the time came; a desire gigantically disproportionate to the few swift moments to which it referred; a wondering that was more like the wondering of some other spirit within his, than his own.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
The reflecting camera being a very troublesome instrument to make, and difficulties besetting us from every source, but little attention could be given to teaching others; and, indeed, as the facts seemed to be at this time, we knew but little of the necessary manipulations ourselves.
American Handbook of the Daguerrotype Samuel D. Humphrey 1994
But then came forward a knight, no mickle man, but clad in very goodly armour, with a lion beaten in gold on his green surcoat; this man smote up the spears, and made the men go back a little, while he stood on the threshold; so Christopher saw that he would parley with him, and forbore him, and the knight spake: "Thou youngling, art thou mad? What doest thou falling on my folk?" "And what do ye," said Christopher fiercely, "besetting the houses of folk with weapons? Now wilt thou take my life.
Child Christopher William Morris 2008

Quotes with BESETTING (3)

We learn to love by basking in the love of other people. We learn how to express our love and our warmest feelings whenever other people grace us with the privilege of besetting upon them many acts of kindness. We unleash a germinal of internal tenderness by affectionately doting upon pets and by generously spending time admiring the natural world.
Kilroy J. Oldster Dead Toad Scrolls
Regarding 'Jabez's Prayer', I will say at once that I am a very poor Christian, and indeed a bad man. My besetting sins are many, and the least of them are the fleshlier ones: the really deadly ones are pride and intellectual arrogance. But I can honestly say I have never sunk to confusing prayer: the soul's colloquy with the Creator, mortal man's dialogue with the Deity: with magical incantation and the ritual of the 'spell.
Markham Shaw Pyle
The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people's actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.
Azar Nafisi The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (2005–2011).