Crossword-Solution: PROVOKES
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Tries to get a rise out of | 2 answers |
| Instigates | 6 answers |
| Incenses | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROVOKES (5)
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on it self recoiles; Let it; I reck not, so it light well aim’d, Since higher I fall short, on him who next Provokes my envie, this new Favorite Of Heav’n, this Man of Clay, Son of despite, Whom us the more to spite his Maker rais’d From dust: spite then with spite is best repaid.
But I must tell you that I shall not willingly believe in any remedy of yours, for you have something in your physiognomy that particularly provokes me to make the remarks that my mother so sincerely deplores.
The herd itself of purpose they reduce To leanness, and when love's sweet longing first Provokes them, they forbid the leafy food, And pen them from the springs, and oft beside With running shake, and tire them in the sun, What time the threshing-floor groans heavily With pounding of the corn-ears, and light chaff Is whirled on high to catch the rising west.
What is base excites our abhorrence; what is vile provokes our disgust or indignation; what is mean awakens contempt.
What was passing in their minds? Perhaps they were overcome by that unconquerable fear which sudden and unexpected death always provokes.
Quotes with PROVOKES (3)
Here is the test of wisdom, Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.
The taxi driver is someone who spends all day driving in city traffic (an activity that provokes either heart attack or delirium), in constant conflict with other human drivers. Consequently, he is nervous and hates every anthropomorphic creature.
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1993–2010).