Crossword-Solution: FOUNDLING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Foundling | v. t. | A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FOUNDLING | anagram | UNFOLDING |
We have 7 clues for the answer “FOUNDLING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Child whose parents are unknown | 1 answer |
| abandoned baby | 1 answer |
| ABANDONED child | 2 answers |
| Orphan. | 7 answers |
| ABANDONED infant | 11 answers |
| Waif | 17 answers |
| Castaway. | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FOUNDLING (5)
His confederate and chief lieutenant, Paulvitch, true to the long years of teaching of his wily master, had at last succumbed to the treachery and greed that had always marked his superior, and, lured by the thoughts of the immense ransom that he might win by returning the child unharmed, had divulged the secret of its parentage to the woman who maintained the foundling asylum.
That isn't a very polite thing to say--but you can't expect me to have any manners; a foundling asylum isn't a young ladies' finishing school.
Roger, who had conceived a notion of some rather peevish foundling of the Ritz-Carlton lobbies and Central Park riding academies, was agreeably amazed by the sweet simplicity of the young lady.
This young person has, to me, a most unusual history, though I understand it's common enough in foundling circles.
And I remembered, too, the wild, neglected lad who had been to me as a brother, warm-hearted and generous, who had shared what he had with a foundling, who had wept with me in my first great sorrow.
Quotes with FOUNDLING (3)
The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.
He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face that society from which he was banished, and into which he had so powerfully intervened; that human justice from which he had snatched its prey; all those tigers whose jaws perforce remained empty; those myrmidons, those judges, those executioners, all that royal power which he, poor, insignificant being, had foiled with the power of God.
I spent a lot of time thinking that I was some kind of foundling, that I had been a changeling, that I had been found under a bush somewhere, and that I couldn't possibly be kin - but the more I live, the more I feel absolutely like I come out of my family. I'm a sort of strange natural progression.
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Appears in: Universal.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2013).