Crossword-Solution: BYWORD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Byword | n. | A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. |
| Byword | n. | The object of a contemptuous saying. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “BYWORD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Slogan or motto | 1 answer |
| Person or thing cited as a memorable example | 1 answer |
| Familiar example | 1 answer |
| person or thing regarded as a perfect example of something | 1 answer |
| Familiar saying – example | 1 answer |
| Well-known saying | 2 answers |
| Common saying. | 3 answers |
| BUZZWORD | 4 answers |
| hypocorism | 4 answers |
| byname | 8 answers |
| Sobriquet. | 11 answers |
| Proverb | 13 answers |
| FAIR game | 13 answers |
| shibboleth | 22 answers |
| Catchphrase | 23 answers |
| Password | 23 answers |
| Catchword | 24 answers |
| battle cry | 26 answers |
| Watchword | 26 answers |
| Logo | 26 answers |
| slogan | 27 answers |
| Rallying cry? | 27 answers |
| Motto | 28 answers |
| Nickname | 30 answers |
| Jingle | 35 answers |
| Aphorism | 35 answers |
| Adage | 36 answers |
| CUE ___ | 42 answers |
| countersign | 49 answers |
| Saw | 57 answers |
| Axiom | 60 answers |
| Handle | 75 answers |
| Signal | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BYWORD (5)
Were he to make himself known, that chapter of his life must at all risks be kept for ever from her and from the Weatherbury people, or his name would be a byword throughout the parish.
The Judge, on one side! And who, on the other? The guilty Clifford! Once a byword! Now, an indistinctly remembered ignominy! Nevertheless, in spite of this perception that the Judge would draw all human aid to his own behalf, Hepzibah was so unaccustomed to act for herself, that the least word of counsel would have swayed her to any mode of action.
But the potentate, like the British in India, pays small regard to the character of his willing client, judges him with listless glances, and condemns him in a byword.
XXVI “Turks, Persians conquered, Antiochia won, Be glorious acts, and full of glorious praise, By Heaven’s mere grace, not by our prowess done: Those conquests were achieved by wondrous ways, If now from that directed course we run The God of Battles thus before us lays, His loving kindness shall we lose, I doubt, And be a byword to the lands about.
And what speak ye of James? There is no longer a Popish tyrant on the throne of England, and by to-morrow noon, his name shall be a byword in this very street, where ye would make it a word of terror.
Quotes with BYWORD (2)
Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief- that is to say, of no belief. But it wearied them to think that within a few years after their death many cults and systems and prognostications would be ascribed to them which they had never... intended. So they said to one another: "Let's join together and make a great book that will last forever that will mock the credulity of man... We'll include all the most preposterous old wives' tales n…
As a global community, we face a choice. Do we want migration to be a source of prosperity and international solidarity, or a byword for inhumanity and social friction?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Newsday, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1956–2018).