Crossword-Solution: OUGHTS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OUGHTS | anagram | SOUGHT, TOUGHS |
We have 5 clues for the answer “OUGHTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Possible name for the first decade of the century | 1 answer |
| Things you should do | 1 answer |
| Moral obligations. | 2 answers |
| Zeroes | 7 answers |
| Ciphers | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OUGHTS (5)
Why, I feel almost as glad as if I had held four three oughts twelve myself; as if the five thousand were mine instead of belonging to our charming hostess.
For you see the dern cuss had struck--"Water?"--Beg your parding, young man,--there you lied! It was GOLD,--in the quartz, And it ran all alike; And I reckon five oughts Was the worth of that strike; And that house with the coopilow's his'n,--which the same isn't bad for a Pike.
Ought! Do you think that anything is strong enough to impose oughts on a passion except a stronger passion still? ANN.
Ought, ought, ought, ought, ought! Are you going to spend your life saying ought, like the rest of our moralists? Turn your oughts into shalls, man.
But we objectify that constantly and pretty universally felt pressure and think of an impersonal, objective "ought." All the arts are expressible in "oughts"; and if there is a more authoritative and categorical nature to moral laws than there is, for example, to the aesthetic laws that art-study reveals, it is because aesthetics deals with only one aspect of human good and ethics with its totality.
Quotes with OUGHTS (3)
But no-one came here to live an ordinary life. Despite what our somnambulistic, mythless society society tells us — a place stuffed to the gilders with unawake, unthinking folk ruled by shoulds, oughts and have-tos; people who have no understanding of themselves; individuals afraid to acknowledge, let alone live their dreams — you came here to weave your unique essence and vision into the world, thus rendering it magnificent, both for yourself and others.
It wasn’t the time and place. He oughtn’t to rush his fences. But she’d waved her arms, and that made her womanly parts jiggle and he could only keep one idea in his head at a time, and in any case, oughts never went down smoothly with him. He was who he was, and that wasn’t a good boy. And so down he went, and crushed her sulky little mouth under his.
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2001–2008).