Crossword-Solution: MOTTOES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mottoes | pl. | of Motto |
We have 17 clues for the answer “MOTTOES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Semper fidelis" and "Be prepared" | 1 answer |
| Words on samplers | 1 answer |
| Things on seals | 1 answer |
| Statements of purpose | 1 answer |
| Some Latin inscriptions | 1 answer |
| Short expressions of guiding principles. | 1 answer |
| Pithy phrases | 1 answer |
| Inspirational words, often | 1 answer |
| Inspirational phrases | 1 answer |
| "Excelsior," "Eureka," etc. | 1 answer |
| "Eureka" and "Excelsior" | 1 answer |
| "Be prepared" and "E pluribus unum" | 1 answer |
| Watchwords. | 5 answers |
| Slogans | 6 answers |
| Proverbs | 9 answers |
| Maxims | 14 answers |
| Words to live by | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MOTTOES (5)
Ill-fated, impious race! That blasphem’d the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it,--no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepid standard out Mark’d with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau!” It was these lines that raised the ire of Byron, who regarded them as an irreverent assault upon his favorite poet, Pope.
For Edward, the uniforms, accoutrements, colours, and mottoes of the regiments composing the British Army had a special glamour.
The whole irregular space is, as it were, fringed with quaint old monuments, rich in death’s-heads and scythes and hour-glasses, and doubly rich in pious epitaphs and Latin mottoes—rich in them to such an extent that their proper space has run over, and they have crawled end-long up the shafts of columns and ensconced themselves in all sorts of odd corners among the sculpture.
You may perhaps look with a smile on the profusion of Latin mottoes—some crawling endwise up the shaft of a pillar, some issuing on a scroll from angels’ trumpets—on the emblematic horrors, the figures rising headless from the grave, and all the traditional ingenuities in which it pleased our fathers to set forth their sorrow for the dead and their sense of earthly mutability.
They had a merry time over the bonbons and mottoes, and were in the midst of a quiet game of _Buzz_, with two or three other young people who had strayed in, when Hannah appeared.
Quotes with MOTTOES (2)
When men decided women could be educated - this is what I think - they educated them on the male plan; they put them into schools with mottoes and school songs and muddy team games, they made them were collars and ties. It was a way to concede the right to learning, yet remain safe; the products of the system would always be inferior to the original model. Women were forced to imitate men, and bound not to succeed at it.
Gentlemen,” said Earl Lavender, with perfect complacence, “it becomes you to make a charge of madness against me. I told my friend Lord Brumm a little ago that you have no minds, and I am convinced of it. As you are possibly unaware of the fact, I may as well explain to you how you have arrived at this not altogether unenviable condition. In your youth, I judge from the contour of your heads that you thought and imagined as much as the average young man; but since the stronge…
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Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1947–2017).