Crossword-Solution: PHILANTHROPIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Philanthropist | n. | One who practices philanthropy; one who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “PHILANTHROPIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being | 1 answer |
| SHARON | 1 answer |
| Person who donates money to good causes | 1 answer |
| He loves man | 1 answer |
| Carnegie or Nobel | 1 answer |
| ADVOCATE of humane action | 3 answers |
| humanist | 3 answers |
| internationalist | 3 answers |
| PERSON who promotes human welfare | 3 answers |
| HUMANE action, advocate of | 3 answers |
| HUMAN welfare, advocate of | 3 answers |
| COMPASSIONATE person | 4 answers |
| CITIZEN of the world | 8 answers |
| GOOD person | 12 answers |
| humanitarian | 18 answers |
| GOOD genius | 19 answers |
| good man | 20 answers |
| missionary | 24 answers |
| Good Samaritan | 27 answers |
| Benefactor | 39 answers |
| IMPRACTICAL person | 46 answers |
| Friend | 56 answers |
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Sentences with PHILANTHROPIST (5)
You satisfy an assassin’s conscience in one way, a philanthropist’s in another, a miser’s in another, a burglar’s in still another.
There would be Judge Pyncheon,—a person eminent in the public view, of high station and great wealth, a philanthropist, a member of Congress and of the church, and intimately associated with whatever else bestows good name,—so imposing, in these advantageous lights, that Hepzibah herself could hardly help shrinking from her own conclusions as to his hollow integrity.
The editor of a monthly review came with his wife, and Lady Kildare, the Irish philanthropist, brought her young nephew, Robert Owen, who had come up from Oxford, and who was visibly excited and gratified by his first introduction to Miss Burgoyne.
She mentioned her name, and she added that the shortness of her stay in London prevented her from giving any longer notice to the eminent philanthropist whom she addressed.
Posing as a sort of philanthropist at the front, he felt his way through the English Army, and at last got his fingers on its one corrupt man--please God!--and that man at the top.
Quotes with PHILANTHROPIST (3)
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to advance the frontiers of his discipline, the missionary seeking to convert infidels to the true faith, the philanthropist seeking to bring comfort to the needy - all are pursuing their interests, as they see them, as they judge them by their own values.
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
... Whenever someone says to me, 'Jerry Lewis says women aren't funny,' or 'Christopher Hitchens says women aren't funny,' or 'Rick Fenderman says women aren't funny... Do you have anything to say to that?'Yes. We don't fucking care if you like it. I don't say it out loud, of course, because Jerry Lewis is a great philanthropist, Hitchens is very sick, and the third guy I made up.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1981–2019).