Crossword-Solution: PERSIST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Persist | v. i. | To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PERSIST | anagram | ESPRITS, PRIESTS, SITREPS, SPITERS, SPRIEST, SPRITES, STIRPES, STRIPES |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PERSIST (5)
The Prince rolled his eyes in indignation, as if to collect some safe and easy victim; and chancing to encounter the firm glance of the same archer whom we have already noticed, and who seemed to persist in his gesture of applause, in spite of the frowning aspect which the Prince bent upon him, he demanded his reason for clamouring thus.
Have you not brought sufficient misery and anguish upon me without attempting to harm me further? What wrong have I ever done you that you should persist in persecuting me?” “You are suffering for the sins of the monkey you chose when you might have had the love of a gentleman—of Nikolas Rokoff,” he replied.
Why does she persist in this inane manner when I've got everything so well planned out? "Mark, Trenchant's called us on the remaining standards that you sent but that we decided not to include in the material we gave her.
Betteredge persist in not agreeing with me, you must be blind to what happened before you this very day.
The government will have to persist in efforts to control external debt and inflation and to extend the privatization program.
Quotes with PERSIST (3)
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-""It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1956–2023).