Crossword-Solution: DEARTHS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DEARTHS | anagram | HARDEST, HARDSET, HATREDS, REDHATS, THREADS, TRASHED |
We have 8 clues for the answer “DEARTHS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Famines | 1 answer |
| Famines or shortages | 1 answer |
| Paucities | 1 answer |
| Insufficiencies | 2 answers |
| Scarcities | 2 answers |
| Shortages | 4 answers |
| Lacks | 6 answers |
| Needs | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEARTHS (5)
The causes and motives of seditions are, innovation in religion; taxes; alteration of laws and customs; breaking of privileges; general oppression; advancement of unworthy persons; strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions grown desperate; and what soever, in offending people, joineth and knitteth them in a common cause.
Fortunately for those who survive, no arrears of misery are allowed by this scourge of ancient days; [Footnote: "_Of ancient days_."--For it is remarkable, and it serves to mark an indubitable progress of mankind, that, before the Christian era, famines were of frequent occurrence in countries the most civilized; afterwards they became rare, and latterly have entirely altered their character into occasional dearths.] the total penalty is paid down at once.
Fictitious dearths were created; the value of wheat was raised to famine prices; good grain was sold out of the kingdom, and bad imported in exchange; while Sixtus forced his subjects to purchase from his stores, and made a profit by the hunger and disease of his emaciated provinces.
Indeed, since these settlements were first established, a period of fifteen years, the crops have never sustained any serious detriment from an insufficiency of rain; whereas, in the parent colony, there have been in the thirty-one years that have elapsed since its foundation, I may venture to say, half a dozen dearths, occasioned by drought, and at least as many arising from floods.
Both countries accordingly, though subject occasionally to dearths, have been famous for their great fertility.
Quotes with DEARTHS (1)
The matter of sedition is of two kinds: much poverty and much discontentment.... The causes and motives of sedition are, innovation in religion; taxes; alteration of laws and customs; breaking of privileges; general oppression; advancement of unworthy persons, strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions grown desperate; and whatsoever in offending people joineth them in a common cause.' The cue of every leader, of course, is to divide his enemies and to unite his friends…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1980–2021).