Crossword-Solution: BEFITTED 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Befitted imp. & p. p. of Befit

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

The brilliancy might have befitted Aladdin’s palace rather than the mansion of a grave old Puritan ruler.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
She put on her gray cashmere dress and gold watch and chain, as befitted a minister’s wife, and while her husband was dressing she packed a black oilcloth satchel with such clothing as she and Thor would need overnight.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
His face went almost white, and then his head came up as befitted him in whose veins flowed the blood of the overlord of a world.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The boys gazed awhile, half expecting to see a blue light flit past a window; then talking in a low tone, as befitted the time and the circumstances, they struck far off to the right, to give the haunted house a wide berth, and took their way homeward through the woods that adorned the rearward side of Cardiff Hill.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
How truly it has kept time these seven-and-thirty years past! The shadow creeps and creeps, and is always looking over the shoulder of the sunshine!” It might have befitted a craftsman, like Matthew Maule, on being sent for to a gentleman’s house, to go to the back door, where servants and work-people were usually admitted; or at least to the side entrance, where the better class of tradesmen made application.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with BEFITTED (3)

So young and so lethargic! As though he had been born to sit and stare like this. Ever since Kiyoaki had confided in him, Shigekuni, who would have been bright and confident, as befitted such an able young man, had undergone a change. Or rather, the friendship between him and Kiyoaki had undergone a strange reversal. For years, each of them had been extremely careful to intrude in no way on the personal life of the other. But now, just three days before, Kiyoaki had suddenly …
Yukio Mishima Spring Snow
Her voice was soft and numinous, as befitted any Aizian singer, yet it was not just bells and melody. There was something else in her tune, a strand of solemnity that no Aizian could possess, for it yearned for something far away, whereas Aizians needed only open their eyes to behold the greatest wonders. Yes, she was in Aizai now, but she hadn’t always been, and for how much longer was impossible to say.
Mary-Jean Harris Aizai the Forgotten
... Don't be surprised, and I say it darkly, do not be surprised if you lose your Luke in this cause; perhaps Mrs. Dudley has not yet had her own mid morning snack, and she is perfectly capable of a filet de Luke á la meuniére, or perhaps dieppoise, depending upon her mood; if I do not return" -and he shook his finger warningly under the doctor's nose- "I entreat you to regard your lunch with the gravest suspicion." Bowing extravagantly, as befitted one off to slay a giant, he closed the door behind him.
Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House
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Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1963–2004).