Crossword-Solution: SINECURES
We have 7 clues for the answer “SINECURES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cushy positions | 1 answer |
| Jobs that pay while you stay in the hay | 1 answer |
| Remunerative offices requiring little work. | 1 answer |
| Soft jobs | 1 answer |
| They're often obtained by patronage | 1 answer |
| Cushy jobs | 2 answers |
| Easy jobs | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
NIDIEV
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with SINECURES (5)
Dogs live with man as courtiers round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice and enriched with sinecures.
For a man of tentative method, and weak health, and a scarcity of private means, and not too much of that frugality which is the artist’s proper virtue, the days of sinecures and patrons look very golden: the days of professional literature very hard.
They dissipate the Thackerayan fable that on the production of _The Old Bachelor_, the fortunate young author received a shower of sinecures, ‘all for writing a comedy.’ ‘And crazy Congreve scarce could spare A shilling to discharge a chair,’ writes Swift, and ‘crazy’ indicates that Congreve was gouty before he was rich.
All people who hold sinecure offices are held in more or less respect, and as the belfry—man of Vondervotteimittiss has the most perfect of sinecures, he is the most perfectly respected of any man in the world.
Still, in addition to numerous other posts, it may be said that all the fat sinecures have always been the portion of Manchus.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1951–2019).