Crossword-Solution: ALIMONY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alimony | n. | Maintenance; means of living. |
| Alimony | n. | An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ALIMONY (5)
Trenor feelingly concluded, “that most of her alimony is paid by other women’s husbands!” Miss Bart, on her way to the station, had leisure to muse over her friend’s words, and their peculiar application to herself.
But the serious women who had set snares for him for the sake of a home had not attracted him; as for the better looking and livelier women who had come a-courting with alimony in view, they had unwisely chosen the method of approach that caused him to set them down as nothing but professional loose characters.
The alternative meant a mere pittance of alimony for her; meant for him social ostracism and the small income cut in half; meant for both scandal and confusion.
She left me of her own accord." "Then," said Mildred thoughtfully, "if the wife leaves of her own accord, she can't get alimony?" "Certainly not--not a cent." "I supposed so," said she.
The blonde bombshell, with her 'sugar daddy,' her alimony 'racket,' and the hundred hard-boiled dodges wherewith she chisels money and goods from her prey, is, again in her own crude phraseology, 'knocked for a row of ash-cans' by Sophie Dawes.
Quotes with ALIMONY (3)
Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.
But no, music lasted longer than anything it inspired. After LPs, cassettes, and CDs, when matrimony was about to decay into its component elements — alimony and acrimony — the songs startled him and regained all their previous, pre-Rachel meanings, as if they had not only conjured her but then dismissed her, as if she had been entirely their illusion. He listened to the old songs again, years later on that same dark promenade, when every CD he had ever owned sat nestled in t…
Sometimes they would just pay me to stay home and not do anything else, which sounds fantastic but doesn't do much for your ego. Its probably a little like getting alimony-the money is nice but has a nasty aftertaste.
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 42 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).