Crossword-Solution: RETALIATORY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retaliatory | a. | Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “RETALIATORY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| having the nature of retaliation | 1 answer |
| of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | 1 answer |
| penalising | 6 answers |
| punitive | 6 answers |
| CASTIGATORY | 6 answers |
| disciplinary | 8 answers |
| Penal | 10 answers |
| counteractive | 32 answers |
| Corrective. | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RETALIATORY (5)
This antecedent considerateness in Fitzpiers was as welcome to Grace as it was unexpected; and though she did not desire his presence, she was sorry that by her retaliatory fiction she had given him a different reason for avoiding her.
Hence followed, on the part of the United States, the non-Importation Act, the Embargo Act of 1807-08, and other retaliatory measures of Jefferson's administration, coupled with reprisals at sea and other expedients to offset British empressment of American sailors and the right of search, so ruthlessly and annoyingly put in force against the newborn nation and her maritime people.
Girls were easier to train; they did not waste time in retaliatory conversation; they were more careful; and they were much more likely to give "the soft answer that turneth away wrath." A telephone call under the boy regime meant Bedlam and five minutes; afterwards, under the girl regime, it meant silence and twenty seconds.
Except that of General Beck on Battalion Duringshofen,--if that was meant as retaliatory, and was not rather an originality of Beck's, who is expert at such strokes,--Daun, in return for all these injurious Assaults and Breakages, tried little or no retaliation; and got absolutely none.
But as to a retaliatory attack—the facts will not justify a capture of his property because he has seized ours.” “Wrong, sir.
Quotes with RETALIATORY (3)
DB: There's a lot of talk about terrorism. In fact, it's become almost an obsession for the media in the United States. But it's a very narrow definition of terrorism. AR: Yes. It completely ignores the economic terrorism unleashed by neoliberalism, which devastates the lives of millions of people, depriving them of water, food, electricity. Denying them medicine. Denying them education. Terrorism is the logical extension of this business of the free market. Terrorism is the …
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants," wrote Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France. In the original and primary sense of lacks or needs, wants tend to structure our vision of government's responsibilities. The quest for security - whether economic, physical, psychological, or military - brings a sense of urgency to politics and is one of the enduring sources of passion in policy controversies. Need is probably the most f…
Threats of trade protectionism, plus unilateral actions on the exchange-rate front, such as the heavy interventions of China, Japan, and Switzerland in the currency markets - not to mention the retaliatory tariffs recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives - endanger growth prospects and could further depress financial market confidence.