Crossword-Solution: PARASITES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PARASITES | anagram | ASPIRATES, SATRAPIES |
We have 21 clues for the answer “PARASITES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| All they do is take, take, take! | 1 answer |
| continuation of the chain | 1 answer |
| Two locations? | 1 answer |
| The Sphinx and the Parthenon? | 1 answer |
| Spongers/rubber areas? | 1 answer |
| Organisms that live off other organisms | 1 answer |
| Leeches, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Fleas for example | 1 answer |
| Creatures that may be capable of mind control | 1 answer |
| Banes of hosts | 1 answer |
| Bloodsuckers | 2 answers |
| Continuation of the chain (7) | 2 answers |
| Lice and the like | 2 answers |
| Fleas | 2 answers |
| Leeches | 4 answers |
| Moochers | 4 answers |
| Spongers. | 4 answers |
| Mooches | 7 answers |
| Hangers-on. | 9 answers |
| DENDRIFORM SPONGES | 10 answers |
| Sponges | 13 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 PARASITES (5)
Spittal said, was a Parisian slouch, and had a plume of three white feathers.’ But all this leaves a blank impression, and it is rather by reading backward in these old musty letters, which have moved me now to laughter and now to impatience, that I glean occasional glimpses of how she seemed to her contemporaries, and trace (at work in her queer world of godly and grateful parasites) a mobile and responsive nature.
Divertingly she described her personal experiences in the separation of usurers, thieves, financiers, hereditary noblemen, popular authors, and other social parasites, from the ill-got profits of their disreputable vocations.
One of the parasites of Prince Alexis, a dilapidated nobleman, officiated as Grand Marshal,--an office which more than compensated for the savage charity he received, for it was performed in continual fear and trembling.
Between first my politician-mother and her band of tonsured swindlers, and then my cantankerous brother and his crew of snarling and sour-minded preachers, and all the court liars and parasites and spies that both sides surrounded me with, I have lived an existence that isn't life at all.
For here, by their garb, were people of every nation on earth, Chinamen, Turks, Spaniards, and many more, mixed with a parti-coloured throng of gentry, lacqueys, chapmen, hucksters, and tall personages in parsons’ gowns who stalked through the crowd with an air of mastery, a string of parasites at their heels.
Quotes with PARASITES (3)
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth.
God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say "seeing"? there are no tenses in God - the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for…
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (1950–2023).