Crossword-Solution: FRITTERED 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Frittered imp. & p. p. of Fritter

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Squandered (away) 1 answer
Wasted (with "away"). 1 answer
Misspent 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
CEMAZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FRITTERED (5)

And if my bubbles be too small for you, Blow bigger then your own: the games we play To fill the frittered minutes of a day, Good glasses are to read the spirit through.
The Children of the Night Edwin Arlington Robinson 2008
How much may depend on the education of daughters and the conduct of mothers; how much of the brightest part of our old national character may be perpetuated by their wisdom or frittered away by their folly—how much of it may have been lost already, and how much more in danger of vanishing every day—are questions too weighty for discussion here, but well deserving a little serious consideration from all young couples nevertheless.
Sketches by Boz Charles Dickens 1997
MENO: What of that? SOCRATES: What of that! Why, did not I ask you to tell me the nature of virtue as a whole? And you are very far from telling me this; but declare every action to be virtue which is done with a part of virtue; as though you had told me and I must already know the whole of virtue, and this too when frittered away into little pieces.
Meno Plato 1999
The Manchus came into power, as conquerors by force of arms, at a time when the mandate of the previous dynasty had been frittered away in corruption and misrule; and although to the Chinese eye they were nothing more than "stinking Tartars," there were not wanting many glad enough to see a change of rule at any price.
China and the Manchus Herbert Allen Giles 1999
The Duke had frittered away his support in that House, and as a Minister had lost that confidence which a majority of the House had once been willing to place in him.
The Prime Minister Anthony Trollope 1999

Quotes with FRITTERED (3)

But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and continuity? What if you step out? Where do you sit at the reunion? How do you mark time's passage without the fear that you've just frittered away your time on earth without being relevant? You'll need to find another purpose, another measure by which to judge whether or not you have been a successful human being. I love children, but what if I don't ha…
Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love
Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand... Simplify, simplify!
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Guilt isn't in cat vocabulary. They never suffer remorse for eating too much, sleeping too long or hogging the warmest cushion in the house. They welcome every pleasurable moment as it unravels and savour it to the full until a butterfly or falling leaf diverts their attention. They don't waste energy counting the number of calories they've consumed or the hours they've frittered away sunbathing. Cats don't beat themselves up about not working hard enough. They don't get up a…
Helen Brown Cleo
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WSJ.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1958–2023).