Crossword-Solution: SVENGALI
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SVENGALI | anagram | GILEVANS, LEAVINGS, SLEAVING, VANGELIS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SVENGALI (5)
Though not Malbrouck, and without a Svengali to keep me in tune.” She went near the door, and stood with heir hands by her side.
She is naturally in love with Little Billee: she is also in love with Svengali, but quite unnaturally and irresponsibly.
But his very success with these domestic (if oddly domestic) figures, and with the very domestic tale of Little Billee's affair of the heart, proves our greatest stumbling-block when we are invited to follow the machinations of the superlative Svengali.
There was no touch of girlish grace, of sentiment, in her performance, and with a sudden enlightenment Serviss inwardly exclaimed: "Aha! A clerical Svengali! This musical preacher has trained his pupil till she plays as _he_ would play if he had the digital facility.
Clarke was terrible when he said it--he is a regular Svengali, I believe, and the mother is completely dominated by him.
Quotes with SVENGALI (3)
I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde. I like suave “V” words, such as Svengali, svelte, bravura, verve. I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words, such as splinter, grapple, jostle, crusty. I like sullen, crabbed, scowling words, such as skulk, glow…
He's sort of a Svengali... It means someone who's manipulative. More than that: somebody who makes you think that you need him in order to accomplish anything.
Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers for his little Trilby to obey; in their eyes, my career was his creation.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 42 times in crossword archives (1946–2023).