Crossword-Solution: HARPAGON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Harpagon | n. | A grappling iron. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “HARPAGON”
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| CLEANTE, father of | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with HARPAGON (5)
Tartuffe and Harpagon, in fact, are made each to whip himself and his class, the false pietists, and the insanely covetous.
The first word is ‘fifty per cent’; he belongs to the race of Harpagon; he’ll take canary birds at all seasons, fur tippets in summer, nankeens in winter.
Both were angry; and a war began, in which Frederic stooped to the part of Harpagon, and Voltaire to that of Scapin.
The nickname was “Single-speech Hamilton,” Harpagon, the miser in Moliere’s L’Avare Hawkins, Sir John.
The owner, thus rendered odious, finds himself obliged to tolerate his exactions to able to profit by them." Imagine, if you can, the evil which a country usurer exercises, armed against them with such burdensome rights; it is the feudal seigniory in the hands of Harpagon, or rather of old Grandet.