Crossword-Solution: REPINED
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REPINED | anagram | DNEIPER, DNIEPER, REDPINE, RIPENED |
We have 9 clues for the answer “REPINED”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Complained, quaintly | 1 answer |
| Languished for love. | 1 answer |
| Had a long face | 2 answers |
| Was fretful | 2 answers |
| Felt a longing | 3 answers |
| Kvetched | 6 answers |
| Languished. | 7 answers |
| fretted | 15 answers |
| Complained | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REPINED (5)
The son made various unsuccessful provisions for himself, and still continued upon his father's hands, to their common dissatisfaction, though it was chiefly the younger who repined.
LXXIV Oh how contentment in their foreheads shined! Their looks with joy; thoughts swelled with secret pleasure, These three it seemed good success designed To make the lords of love and beauty’s treasure: Their doubtful fellows at their hap repined, And with small patience wait Fortune’s leisure, Upon his lips that read the scrolls attending, As if their lives were on his words depending.
XII It was the time when gainst the breaking day Rebellious night yet strove, and still repined, For in the east appeared the morning gray And yet some lamps in Jove’s high palace shined, When to Mount Olivet he took his way, And saw, as round about his eyes he twined, Night’s shadows hence, from thence the morning’s shine, This bright, that dark; that earthly, this divine.
But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.
The people cry you mocked them; and, of late, When corn was given them gratis, you repined, Scandaled the suppliants for the people, called them Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness.
Quotes with REPINED (2)
To pass its threshold was to return to stagnation; to cross the silent hall, to ascend the darksome staircase, to seek my own lonely little room, and then to meet tranquil Mrs. Fairfax, and spend the long winter evening with her, and her only, was to quell wholly the faint excitement wakened by my walk, — to slip again over my faculties the viewless fetters of an uniform and too still existence; of an existence whose very privileges of security and ease I was becoming incapab…
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1956–2018).