Crossword-Solution: DISCOUNTENANCED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Discountenanced | imp. & p. p. | of Discountenance |
We have 3 clues for the answer “DISCOUNTENANCED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Took a dim view of | 2 answers |
| DIM VIEW | 10 answers |
| Grey ____ | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
EVDNII
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with DISCOUNTENANCED (5)
Let her look at the shops; she may take some money, she may buy what she likes.” Poor Miss Tita had got up, discountenanced and helpless, and as we stood there before her aunt it would certainly have seemed to a spectator of the scene that the old woman was amusing herself at our expense.
She was surprised, out of all measure, discountenanced, taken all aback, and when she found her breath, gave voice to a great “Oh” of dismay and distress.
Even fortunes supposed to be independent of the market either betrayed a secret dependence on it, or suffered from a sympathetic affection: fashion sulked in its country houses, or came to town incognito, general entertainments were discountenanced, and informality and short dinners became the fashion.
But, I say, they discountenanced them as much as they were able, and showed them all the dislike that they could.
Beating of women by the lords of the creation has become very prevalent in England since pugilism has been discountenanced.
Quotes with DISCOUNTENANCED (1)
During the whole time consumed in the slow growth of this family tree, the house of Smallweed, always early to go out and late to marry, has strengthened itself in its practical character, has discarded all amusements, discountenanced all story-books, fairy-tales, fictions, and fables, and banished all levities whatsoever. Hence the gratifying fact that it has had no child born to it and that the complete little men and women whom it has produced have been observed to bear a …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).