Crossword-Solution: PERSUADES 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PERSUADES (5)

Conservative scepticism that persuades itself that it believes, cynical acuteness in discerning the weak points either of mere secularism or dreaming mysticism, or passionate eagerness to reform, avoiding dangerous extremes, and taking things as they are because they are comfortable, and lead to wealth, enjoyment, reputation,--this, whether a true account or not of the theologian to whom we have referred.
Introduction to Robert Browning Hiram Corson 2008
Reefy’s “truths” may be we never know; Anderson simply persuades us that to this lonely old man they are utterly precious and thereby incommunicable, forming a kind of blurred moral signature.
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson 1996
But the more interesting instances of dual crime are those in which one innocent hitherto of crime, to whom it is morally repugnant, is persuaded by another to the commission of a criminal act, as Cassius persuades Brutus; Iago, Othello.
A Book of Remarkable Criminals H. B. Irving 1996
But it never persuades." "I'll admit it's a coward." "And I hope I can always frighten enough of it into my service to satisfy my needs.
The Cost David Graham Phillips 1996
However, he is a good chief and a mighty warrior, and if Du-seen persuades him to his cause, the Galus may find themselves under a Kro-lu chieftain before long--Du-seen as well as the others, for Al-tan would never consent to occupy a subordinate position, and once he plants a victorious foot in Galu, he will not withdraw it without a struggle." I asked them what batu meant, as I had not before heard the word.
The People that Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs 1996

Quotes with PERSUADES (3)

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Tertullian
The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And one more demand: I expect the novelist to aspire to improve the world. ... As a novelist, I want to be more than one more dog barking at the other dogs barking at me. Not out of any foolish hope that one novelist, or all virtuous novelists in chorus, can make much of a difference for good, except in the long run, but out of the need to prevent the human world from relaxing into…
Edward Abbey Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world. But not if the river is navigable, as ours is. On pretty weekends in the summer, this riverbank is the very verge of the modern world. It is a seat in the front row, you might say. On those weekends, the river is disquieted from morning to night by people resting from their work. This resting involves traveling at great speed, first on the road and then on the river. The peopl…
Wendell Berry Jayber Crow
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Appears in: LAT, New Yorker.

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