Crossword-Solution: INANITIES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Inanities | pl. | of Inanity |
We have 3 clues for the answer “INANITIES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Silly comments | 1 answer |
| Follies | 5 answers |
| foolishness | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INANITIES (5)
Sir Percy’s coats were the talk of the town, his inanities were quoted, his foolish laugh copied by the gilded youth at Almack’s or the Mall.
There were plenty of young ladies in England, of high birth and good looks, who would have been quite willing to help him to spend the Blakeney fortune, whilst smiling indulgently at his inanities and his good-humoured foolishness.
She despised her husband for his inanities and vulgar, unintellectual occupations; and he, she felt, would despise her still worse, because she had not been strong enough to do right for right’s sake, and to sacrifice her brother to the dictates of her conscience.
But it also strengthened her in the now certain knowledge that, with his worldly inanities, his foppish ways, and foolish talk, he was not only wearing a mask, but was playing a deliberate and studied part.
Something particular, in this ocean of inanities? In common charity, speak!” “I doubt whether you will like it.” “Oh, I hope to heaven it ‘s not a compliment!” “It may be called a compliment to your reasonableness.
Quotes with INANITIES (3)
Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of knowledge, a defect correctable by education. In Flaubert's novels, stupidity is an inseparable dimension of human existence. It accompanies poor Emma throughout her days, to her bed of love and to her deathbed, over which two deadly agélastes, Homais and Bournisien, go on endlessly trading their inanities like a kind of funeral or…
Goya’s savage verve, his harsh, brutal genius, captivated Des Esseintes. On the other hand, the universal admiration his works had won rather put him off, and for years he had refrained from framing them, for fear that if he hung them up, the first idiot who saw them would might feel obliged to dishonour them with a few inanities and go into stereotyped ecstasies over them.
He is too presumptuous about the inanities of appearances, poor realities gone for a toss.
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Appears in: LAT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2020).