Crossword-Solution: FERINE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ferine | a. | Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts. |
| Ferine | n. | A wild beast; a beast of prey. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FERINE | anagram | FERNIE, REFINE |
We have 6 clues for the answer “FERINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Inhumanly savage | 1 answer |
| LIKE a beast | 3 answers |
| Untamed | 50 answers |
| Feral | 70 answers |
| Brutal | 75 answers |
| Wild _____ | 108 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FERINE (5)
The Here, the Now, the vast Forlorn around us; The gold-delirium, the ferine strife; The lusts that lure us on, the hates that hound us; Our red rags in the patch-work quilt of Life.
The material used, whether brute or human, is subjected to careful selection and discipline, in order to secure and accentuate certain aptitudes and propensities which are characteristic of the ferine state, and which tend to obsolescence under domestication.
This does not mean that the result in either case is an all around and consistent rehabilitation of the ferine or barbarian habit of mind and body.
The result is rather a one-sided return to barbarism or to the feroe natura--a rehabilitation and accentuation of those ferine traits which make for damage and desolation, without a corresponding development of the traits which would serve the individual's self-preservation and fullness of life in a ferine environment.
His hot breath, strong with the odor of garlic, fanned our hero's cheek, while his lips, distended into a ferocious and ferine grin, displayed his sharp teeth shining in the candlelight.
Quotes with FERINE (1)
Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The a…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1978–1986).