Crossword-Solution: DISCREPANCY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Discrepancy | n. | The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DISCREPANCY (5)
His pride was humbled by the discrepancy between what Sophy Viner had been to him and what he had thought of her.
There was a dispute concerning some petit larceny--some slight discrepancy, we will imagine, since all this is pure romance, in the politician's accounts----" "Now you belie me----" said the black-haired man, and warmly.
How long they endured I could not tell, for I had no means of measuring time; and when I looked back, there was such a discrepancy between the decisions of my imagination and my judgment, as to the length of time that had passed, that I was bewildered, and gave up all attempts to arrive at any conclusion on the point.
People had gotten into the habit of fancying that, because certain men had grown very, very rich through their own genius for money-making, supplemented perhaps by accidental favors from law and public officials, therefore politics in some way might possibly concern the private citizen, might account for the curious discrepancy between his labor and its reward.
There was some discrepancy in age, he being thirty-seven, and she twenty-four; but, save in that one respect, there was no possible objection to be found with the match.
Quotes with DISCREPANCY (3)
They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality.
The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.
The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second. This extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it should be, and deserves fuller investigation.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1994).