Crossword-Solution: BOOTLESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bootless | a. | Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “BOOTLESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like a barefoot cowboy | 1 answer |
| futile years after her artistic peak | 1 answer |
| unproductive of success | 1 answer |
| Solo bet’s (anag) – unsuccessful | 1 answer |
| Without footwear | 3 answers |
| A VAIN ATTEMPT | 11 answers |
| unformed | 14 answers |
| Unavailable | 16 answers |
| abortive | 26 answers |
| unripe | 39 answers |
| Unavailing | 54 answers |
| Ineffective | 70 answers |
| Vain | 75 answers |
| Futile | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BOOTLESS (5)
She's got it all now, I guess.” “Ah, she's got it all.” The dentist went away from his bootless visit to his wife shaking with rage, hating her with all the strength of a crude and primitive nature.
For a Book by Thomas Hardy With searching feet, through dark circuitous ways, I plunged and stumbled; round me, far and near, Quaint hordes of eyeless phantoms did appear, Twisting and turning in a bootless chase, -- When, like an exile given by God's grace To feel once more a human atmosphere, I caught the world's first murmur, large and clear, Flung from a singing river's endless race.
LXI “And let the tyrant have his heart’s desire, Let him perform the cruelty he meant, My guiltless blood must quench the ceaseless fire On which my endless tears were bootless spent, Unless thou help; to thee, renowned Sire, I fly, a virgin, orphan, innocent, And let these tears that on thy feet distil, Redeem the drops of blood, he thirsts to spill.
Cruel, though answering not, I know you hear." IX So saying, like one blind, with bootless care, Feeling his way about the fount he strayed.
Now it chanced that I had been, While life was yet in bud and blade, bethrothed To one, a neighbouring Princess: she to me Was proxy-wedded with a bootless calf At eight years old; and still from time to time Came murmurs of her beauty from the South, And of her brethren, youths of puissance; And still I wore her picture by my heart, And one dark tress; and all around them both Sweet thoughts would swarm as bees about their queen.
Quotes with BOOTLESS (3)
To me, quotes function as the sunscreen against a writers brilliance. As soon as I cannot stand to look at the magnificence of the acropolis of pure thought the writer managed to doll out in the cognizant chaos - I quote him, and by doing so I am discharged and freed. On the other hand, even while I do acknowledge that some things cannot be quoted, I vehemently distrust any writer whose army of quotes does not consist of impeccable warriors but the sort of bootless canon fodd…
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
What do you do when the alienating silence deafens your 'bootless cries'?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1993–2005).