Crossword-Solution: OVERWORKED 10 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

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Overworked imp. & p. p. of Overwork

We have 17 clues for the answer “OVERWORKED”

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Like the underpaid, typically 1 answer
Trite, as a joke 2 answers
Done to death 5 answers
Death Done to 10 answers
Expended 20 answers
Debilitated 27 answers
Bushed 32 answers
Exhausting. 47 answers
Tired 49 answers
dissatisfied 50 answers
BEATEN ___ 55 answers
depleted 55 answers
Consumed 61 answers
Used 63 answers
fed up 72 answers
wearied 73 answers
BEAT ___ 125 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERWORKED (5)

The Ass found that he had fallen into worse hands, and noting his master’s occupation, said, groaning: “It would have been better for me to have been either starved by the one, or to have been overworked by the other of my former masters, than to have been bought by my present owner, who will even after I am dead tan my hide, and make me useful to him.” The Oak and the Reeds A VERY LARGE OAK was uprooted by the wind and thrown across a stream.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Rather than have an already harried and overworked human take care of additions and removals from a list, a program performs these and other tasks by responding to a set of user-driven commands.
Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992
She had been cruelly overworked on her father’s Minnesota farm when she was a young girl, and she had never been so happy as she was now; had never before, as she said, had such social advantages.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
The man who rode on the horse performed the whip and an instrument made of steel alone with strong ardor not diminishing, for, being tired from the time passed with hard labor overworked with anger and ignorant with weariness, while every breath for labor he drew with cries full of sorrow, the young deer made imperfect who worked hard filtered in sight.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Somewhere, deep in the demented mind of some middle management G- 9 bureaucrat, Duncan thought, an idea germinated that he could sell to another overworked, underpaid civil servant; his boss.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

Quotes with OVERWORKED (3)

Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked professionals who need to relax now and then, have a bit of the whoop and the giggle, right?
Hunter S. Thompson Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson
Here the phenomenologist has nothing in common with the literary critic who, as has frequently been noted, judges a work that he could not create and, if we are to believe certain facile condemnations, would not want to create. A literary critic is a reader who is necessarily severe. By turning inside out like a glove an overworked complex that has become debased to the point of being part of the vocabulary of statesmen, we might say that the literary critic and the professor…
Gaston Bachelard The Poetics of Space
Here’s another example that some overworked mothers might find inspiring. We saw in Chapter 2 that being the one who producesthe sperm doesn’t dictate, by universal principle, that parenting is out of the portfolio. However, in the case of the rat (as with mostmammals), the balance of trade-offs make it more adaptive for males to leave parenting to the mothers. This might tempt us to take it forgranted that males, by virtue of their sex, therefore lack the capacity to care fo…
Cordelia Fine Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
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Used 3 times in crossword archives (1982–2019).