Crossword-Solution: DRACONIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Draconian | a. | Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “DRACONIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Greek synonym for "Hitlerian." | 1 answer |
| Extremely unforgiving | 1 answer |
| Extremely strict or severe | 1 answer |
| Excessively harsh | 1 answer |
| *Overly harsh | 1 answer |
| Unusually cruel | 2 answers |
| Unusually harsh | 2 answers |
| Like some laws | 4 answers |
| Very harsh | 4 answers |
| drastic | 18 answers |
| authoritarian | 36 answers |
| unpermissive | 47 answers |
| rigorist | 49 answers |
| ironhanded | 51 answers |
| limiting | 52 answers |
| restrictive | 54 answers |
| restraining | 55 answers |
| persuasive | 56 answers |
| Inexorable | 56 answers |
| relentless | 57 answers |
| confining | 57 answers |
| unmerciful | 59 answers |
| uncharitable | 61 answers |
| Inclement | 62 answers |
| Hardening | 64 answers |
| Exacting | 66 answers |
| Barbarian | 66 answers |
| compelling | 67 answers |
| Stern | 68 answers |
| barbarous | 72 answers |
| Severe | 76 answers |
| Fierce. | 78 answers |
| Harsh | 91 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with DRACONIAN (5)
There were, besides, two curious provisions;--any one assaulting or challenging another to a duel on account of disputes over gaming, should forfeit all his goods and be imprisoned for two years; secondly, the royal palaces of St James's and Whitehall were exempted from the operation of this statute, so long as the sovereign was actually resident within them--which last clause probably showed that the entire Draconian enactment was but a farce.
Over and above this draconian architecture of the earth a veil of gray woods hung thinner like a vapor; woods which the witchcraft of the sea had, as usual, both blighted and blown out of shape.
Occasional damage may accrue from habits early depraved, or a heart too early and too easily susceptible; but the injury so done is not, I think, equal to that inflicted by a Draconian code of morals, which will probably be evaded, and will certainly create a desire for its evasion.
THE CABAL After his return to the capital of Penguinia, the Reverend Father Agaric disclosed his projects to Prince Adélestan des Boscénos, of whose Draconian sentiments he was well aware.
Are you still aware what you have sworn to me?” “I am aware of it! But it is an unnatural Draconian law.
Quotes with DRACONIAN (3)
The Nazis destroyed the independence of the press by passing series of draconian laws and it seems we are exactly imitating the same with the freedom of the internet by passing Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill.
The tabloids wanted to know whether the dragon was receiving benefits. The gossip magazines claimed to have found a woman who was bearing the dragon's baby. The fashion magazines did spreads on draconian style. This apparently consisted of gaunt models with sunken eyes, swathed in clouds of chiffon and arranged in awkwardly erotic positions on piles of gold coins.
By the end of 2004, U.S. operations in Iraq had been rough enough to antagonize the Sunni population without imposing the draconian methods armies habitually employ to control a population. In the spring of 2006, the coalition was losing on the two major fronts that accounted for most of the fighting. In Anbar to the west, al Qaeda controlled the population; in Baghdad to the east, Shiite death squads were driving our the sunnis, while al Qaeda's suicide bombings continued. Y…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1956–2024).