Crossword-Solution: DAMPENER 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Here was a dampener, and if Henry George had been a trifle more astute in the laws of literary supply and demand, he could and would have anticipated the result, even in spite of the natural prejudice which an author always feels for the offspring of his brain.

She was beautiful and attractive, and he had feared she might be ugly, which would have been a dampener on his satisfaction.

REWARD A PRIZE WON BY ONE ONLY.--If this reward, whether promotion or pay, was given to someone under Traditional Management, this usually meant that others thereby lost it; it was in the nature of a prize which one only could attain, and which the others, therefore, would lose, and such a lost prize is, to the average man, for the time at least, a dampener on action.

His spirits had received a dampener, but in a few minutes he seized upon a cigar and began smoking; as the wreaths curled over his head he began to talk, and this time it was on subjects totally foreign to myself and even to himself.

Have you tried your sound dampener?" And Danny O'Rourke had the grace to blush even through the flush that the fire's breath had given his face.