Crossword-Solution: PELF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pelf | n. | Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural. |
We have 35 clues for the answer “PELF”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wealth acquired dishonestly | 1 answer |
| Crooked gains | 1 answer |
| Dishonestly acquired booty | 1 answer |
| Dishonestly acquired riches | 1 answer |
| Extortioner's booty | 1 answer |
| Ill-acquired funds | 1 answer |
| Ill-gotten funds | 1 answer |
| Ill-gotten loot, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Ill-gotten wealth | 1 answer |
| Ill-regarded riches | 1 answer |
| Mere money. | 1 answer |
| Ill-gotten money | 2 answers |
| Ill-gotten riches | 2 answers |
| Wealth of a sort. | 2 answers |
| Ill gotten money | 3 answers |
| "Filthy" riches | 3 answers |
| Ill-gotten loot | 3 answers |
| Bread or cabbage | 4 answers |
| FILTHY lucre | 4 answers |
| Pirate's booty | 5 answers |
| Ill-gotten gain | 5 answers |
| BASED ON OR ARISING FROM THE POSSESSION OF MONEY OR WEALTH | 10 answers |
| DIRTY MONEY | 12 answers |
| Moola | 14 answers |
| Ill-gotten gains | 16 answers |
| lucre | 16 answers |
| Moolah | 20 answers |
| Spoils | 21 answers |
| Riches | 25 answers |
| Booty | 29 answers |
| Affluence | 29 answers |
| Loot | 37 answers |
| golden touch | 45 answers |
| Wealth | 47 answers |
| Money | 74 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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PELF (5)
Said the Shade: 'At finer feelings let your lip in scorn be curled, 'Self and Pelf', my friend, has ever been the motto for the world.' And he said: 'If you'd be happy, you must clip your fancy's wings, Stretch your conscience at the edges to the size of earthly things; Never fight another's battle, for a friend can never know When he'll gladly fly for succour to the bosom of the foe.
Then he smiled a smile as he pouched the pelf, 'I'm glad that I'm quit of them, win or lose: You can fetch them in when it suits yourself, And you'll find the skins -- on the kangaroos!' Then he left -- and the silence settled down Like a tangible thing upon Walgett Town.
They've taken me pride and me pelf, And when I'd no one to play with--why, I'd go and I'd play by meself.
Out there where the strife and the greed are forgot And the struggle for pelf, A man can get rid of each taint and each spot And clean up himself; He can be what he wanted to be when a boy, If only in dreams; And revel once more in the depths of a joy That's as real as it seems.
Further, as Ovid in the first book of the De Vetula justly complains: The hearts of all men after gold aspire; Few study to be wise, more to acquire: Thus, Science! all thy virgin charms are sold, Whose chaste embraces should disdain their gold, Who seek not thee thyself, but pelf through thee, Longing for riches, not philosophy.
Quotes with PELF (2)
The writer of this legend then records Its ghostly application in these words: The image is the Adversary old, Whose beckoning finger points to realms of gold; Our lusts and passions are the downward stair That leads the soul from a diviner air; The archer, Death; the flaming jewel, Life; Terrestrial goods, the goblet and the knife; The knights and ladies all whose flesh and bone By avarice have been hardened into stone; The clerk, the scholar whom the love of pelf Tempts fro…
Patriotism Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, 'This is my own, my native land!' Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath turn'dFrom wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall f…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 117 times in crossword archives (1956–2020).