Crossword-Solution: ABASEMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Abasement | n. | The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation. |
We have 53 clues for the answer “ABASEMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a low or downcast state | 1 answer |
| MOVING back | 48 answers |
| subservience | 49 answers |
| shamefacedness | 49 answers |
| worsening | 51 answers |
| overhanging | 51 answers |
| bashfulness | 51 answers |
| Opprobrium | 52 answers |
| cringing | 52 answers |
| Wallowing | 52 answers |
| grovelling | 53 answers |
| disesteem | 53 answers |
| cowering | 54 answers |
| servility | 54 answers |
| Obloquy | 56 answers |
| Ignominy | 56 answers |
| Mortification | 56 answers |
| desecration | 57 answers |
| Disrepute | 58 answers |
| stigma | 58 answers |
| disapprobation | 59 answers |
| Decadence | 61 answers |
| Fawning | 63 answers |
| Compunction | 63 answers |
| Odium | 64 answers |
| slur | 64 answers |
| Scandal | 64 answers |
| Contempt | 65 answers |
| Indignity | 65 answers |
| forbearing | 68 answers |
| discomfiture | 68 answers |
| dishonour | 69 answers |
| Threat | 70 answers |
| Humiliation | 70 answers |
| Regret | 72 answers |
| Chagrin | 72 answers |
| Remorse | 72 answers |
| retrogression | 73 answers |
| Blot | 73 answers |
| baseness | 74 answers |
| Degeneration | 74 answers |
| Menacing | 75 answers |
| Lowering. | 75 answers |
| Lessening | 76 answers |
| Degradation | 77 answers |
| Affront | 77 answers |
| abashment | 79 answers |
| Blame | 81 answers |
| reproach | 82 answers |
| Ominous | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with ABASEMENT (5)
Innocent as I knew myself to be, certain as I was that the abominable imputation which rested on me must sooner or later be cleared off, there was nevertheless a sense of self-abasement in my mind which instinctively disinclined me to see any of my friends.
Even in his abasement, crouching under a shelf in the corner, Aubrey's stricken senses told him that he had never seen so fair a spectacle.
Here, too, there was no faith nor Christ, and the virtue of the absolution was not declared to him, but upon his enumeration of sins and his self-abasement depended his consolation.
What wind of folly had driven her out again on those dark seas? If anything was needed to put the last touch to her self-abasement it was the sense of the way her old life was opening its ruts again to receive her.
How often she had heard him swear, in solemn vibrating tones, that to the day of his death his most sacred ambition should be their punishment, their abasement in the dust and mire! And now, all at once, as she looked up at him, where he leant against the mantel, these vagabond memories of hers took point and shape.
Quotes with ABASEMENT (3)
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, the…
The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement.
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it — that no substitute can do your thinking — that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, WP.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1976–2023).