Crossword-Solution: SPLURGE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Splurge | n. | A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display. |
| Splurge | v. i. | To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPLURGE | anagram | GULPERS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPLURGE (5)
Leach fails to note that the best books concerning Texas have done little to keep the typical Texan alive and that a great part of the present Texas Brags spirit is as absurdly unrealistic as Mussolini's splurge at making twentieth-century Italians imagine themselves a {illust.
Think of his coming out here and starting a regular debating society declamation before his mother and father! Why, I never heard anything like it in my life! I don't like to hurt his feelings, and I'd give him anything I could afford that would do him any good, but all he wants it for now is to splurge around in at this party before that little yellow-haired girl! I guess he can wear the kind of clothes most of the other boys wear--the kind _I_ wore at parties--and never thought of wearing anything else.
And now that it was virtually over, at last, he was so resigned to the departure of his daughter's lovely little friend that he felt no regret for the splurge with which her visit was closing.
Town ain’t settled enough yet for to bring in the rubber-ring brigade, I reckon.” “To top off this Christmas-tree splurge of Cherokee’s,” went on Baldy, “he’s goin’ to give an imitation of Santa Claus.
You're sized up from the crack of the pistol.” “I haven't the money to make a splurge even if I wanted to.” “Borrow.” “Who from?” asked Jeff ungrammatically.
Quotes with SPLURGE (3)
The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.
Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoes--a frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1961–2022).