Crossword-Solution: BEHOOVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Behoove | v. t. | To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally. |
| Behoove | v. i. | To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due. |
| Behoove | n. | Advantage; behoof. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “BEHOOVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Be ethically necessary | 1 answer |
| Be incumbent on | 1 answer |
| Be incumbent upon. | 1 answer |
| Make sense for | 1 answer |
| Serve better | 1 answer |
| Serve Well | 2 answers |
| Be proper for. | 2 answers |
| Be fitting for. | 2 answers |
| Be necessary for | 2 answers |
| Befit | 10 answers |
| BE APPROPRIATE OR NECESSARY | 11 answers |
| Benefit | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BEHOOVE (5)
Then, when they had all gathered together at the place of meeting, Robin spoke to them thus: "Now we will lie here in ambush until we can get news, for it doth behoove us to be cunning and wary if we would bring our friend Will Stutely off from the Sheriff's clutches." So they lay hidden a long time, until the sun stood high in the sky.
Gentlemen, Justices, master Mayor, and master Shrieve, It doth behoove us all, and each of us In general and particular, to have care For suppressing of all mutinies, And all assemblies, except soldiers’ musters For the King’s preparation into France.
Yes, but then a good deal of his ARBITRIUM, or sovereign will, was that of the Eternal Heavens as well; and did exceedingly behoove to be done, if the Earth would prosper.
Your unruly Catholic bull, plunging about, and goring men in that mad absurd manner, it will behoove that somebody take him by the horns, or by the tail, and teach him manners.
The scenes that follow are unusual in royal history; and having been reported in the world with infinite noise and censure, made up of laughter and horror, it will behoove us to be the more exact in relating them as they actually befell.
Quotes with BEHOOVE (3)
What would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my script in some tediously exacting manner? I must confess that I am less likely to believe that it’s a matter of some narcissistic demand that I freely pen my own script. Rather, I think it’s fear that I’m too inadequate to follow God’s.
I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains.... But when I see [barbarous man] sacrifice pleasures, repose, wealth, power, and life itself for the preservation of this sole good which is so disdained by those who have lost it; when I see animals born free and despising captivity break their heads against the bars of their prison; when I see multitudes of entirely naked savages scorn European voluptuousness an…
Drift me away along with the dust traveling to infinity. To another world where it feels more at home. To another world where I don’t feel alone. Trapped in the angst of my soul. Not being embraced as a whole. A state of nothingness creeps upon me. Disappearing in the darkness of the shadows. How it has clocked my life. Because that is the only place where I find peace. I call it nyctophilia. And what am I when the day turns into the night, listening to the nocturnal and the …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WP.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).