Crossword-Solution: DESTITUTE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Destitute | a. | Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. |
| Destitute | a. | Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor. |
| Destitute | v. t. | To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. |
| Destitute | v. t. | To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of. |
| Destitute | v. t. | To disappoint. |
We have 125 clues for the answer “DESTITUTE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Showing no vestige of. | 1 answer |
| Sorely lacking | 1 answer |
| Poverty stricken | 2 answers |
| on skid row | 2 answers |
| Stone broke | 5 answers |
| Lacking, with "of" | 6 answers |
| necessitous | 9 answers |
| LACKING necessities of life | 11 answers |
| out at heels | 16 answers |
| Stripped | 18 answers |
| BAD OFF | 24 answers |
| Devoid | 27 answers |
| beggared | 31 answers |
| failing in duty | 39 answers |
| sluttish | 39 answers |
| schlock | 39 answers |
| orgiastic | 40 answers |
| Impecunious | 40 answers |
| remiss | 41 answers |
| irreplaceable | 41 answers |
| Penniless | 42 answers |
| forfeited | 42 answers |
| misused | 42 answers |
| penurious | 42 answers |
| Needy | 43 answers |
| Dissipated | 43 answers |
| misappropriated | 43 answers |
| Hard up | 44 answers |
| failed | 45 answers |
| in error | 46 answers |
| Battered | 46 answers |
| Ravaged | 46 answers |
| used up | 46 answers |
| Squandered | 47 answers |
| Worn out | 47 answers |
| Loafing | 48 answers |
| dirt poor | 48 answers |
| dispersed | 48 answers |
| Threadbare | 48 answers |
| Tardy | 49 answers |
| shattered | 49 answers |
| Unpretentious | 50 answers |
| Passed | 50 answers |
| chargeable | 51 answers |
| Underfed | 51 answers |
| scruffy | 52 answers |
| Mistaken | 53 answers |
| neglecting | 53 answers |
| CRUSHED ___ | 53 answers |
| Neglectful | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESTITUTE (5)
Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.
This principle was sufficient thenceforward to rid me of all those repentings and pangs of remorse that usually disturb the consciences of such feeble and uncertain minds as, destitute of any clear and determinate principle of choice, allow themselves one day to adopt a course of action as the best, which they abandon the next, as the opposite.
But, after looking awhile at the long-tailed imp, he was so shocked by his horrible ugliness, spiritual as well as physical, that he actually began to shed tears; a weakness which men of merely delicate endowments, and destitute of the fiercer, deeper, and more tragic power of laughter, can hardly avoid, when the worst and meanest aspect of life happens to be presented to them.
Had the acute-angled rabble been all, without exception, absolutely destitute of hope and of ambition, they might have found leaders in some of their many seditious outbreaks, so able as to render their superior numbers and strength too much even for the wisdom of the Circles.
You know, I said, that we begin by telling children stories which, though not wholly destitute of truth, are in the main fictitious; and these stories are told them when they are not of an age to learn gymnastics.
Quotes with DESTITUTE (3)
It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have.
In the same way you can find God in the beauty of nature, you can find God in the beauty of the destitute. We're not meant to just admire the trees, we're meant to share life.
This doctrine of total inability which declares that men are dead in sin does not mean that all men are equally bad, nor that any man is as bad as he could be, nor that anyone is entirely destitute of virtue, nor that human nature is equal in itself, nor that man’s spirit in inactive, and much less does it mean that the body is dead. What is does mean is that since the fall, man rests under the curse of sin, that he is actuated by wrong principles, and that he is wholly unabl…
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1962–2021).