Crossword-Solution: FAWNED
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Fawned | imp. & p. p. | of Fawn |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FAWNED | anagram | ANDFEW |
We have 11 clues for the answer “FAWNED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Acted obsequiously | 1 answer |
| Acted servilely | 1 answer |
| Flattered excessively, with "over" | 1 answer |
| Flattered shamelessly (with "over") | 1 answer |
| Toadied | 1 answer |
| Truckled | 1 answer |
| Was obsequious | 1 answer |
| ___ over (flattered excessively) | 1 answer |
| Groveled | 3 answers |
| Cringed | 3 answers |
| Kowtowed | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMZAEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FAWNED (5)
Soon afterward he came up to a Shepherd and fawned upon him, wagging his tail as if to say, “I am a suppliant, and seek your aid.” The Shepherd boldly examined the beast, discovered the thorn, and placing his paw upon his lap, pulled it out; thus relieved of his pain, the Lion returned into the forest.
But as soon as he came near to Androcles he recognised his friend, and fawned upon him, and licked his hands like a friendly dog.
Then he cast himself on the ground before her, and kissed her feet, and clasped her about the knees, and laid his cheek to her raiment, and fawned upon her, and cried out many an idle word of love, and still she wept a while and spake not.
They only took the Judas-gold from Fenians out of jail, They only fawned for dollars on the blood-dyed Clanna-Gael.
When I came in he ran to me and said he wanted to ask me a great favour--a very, very great favour; and as he spoke he fawned on me like a dog.
Quotes with FAWNED (3)
I had been poor myself, and knew what awaited him in the world. He would find that they who fawned on him most would be first to turn their backs on him now. He would be rudely disillusioned regarding the fables of love and friendship, and would become cynical, bitter, and sceptical of there being any disinterested good in human nature.
My wakeup call wasn’t some light switch of empowerment. From as early as preschool I feared that if I didn’t grow up to be the pretty princess men fawned over, I was a failure. That mentality was my disease. It got me raped. It made me feel dirty and devalued because my cherry wasn’t popped on a bed of rose petals. It fueled an adolescence juggling starvation and vomiting until my throat bled out and my stomach acid burned through the plumbing. It made me snort coke, smoke me…
Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of the Reich fawned over him and worshipped him with total devotion.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1976–2025).