Crossword-Solution: TROPES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TROPES | anagram | ESPORT, OPTERS, PEROTS, PORTES, POSTER, PRESTO, REPOST, REPOTS, RESPOT, RESTOP, STOPER, TOPERS |
We have 19 clues for the answer “TROPES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Figurative expressions | 1 answer |
| Words used figuratively | 1 answer |
| Training montages, underdog victories, etc., in sports movies | 1 answer |
| Similes, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Similes and metaphors and such | 1 answer |
| Similes and metaphors | 1 answer |
| Rhetorical devices | 1 answer |
| Movie cliches | 1 answer |
| Metaphors et al. | 1 answer |
| Figurative uses of words | 1 answer |
| Familiar devices | 1 answer |
| Allegory and euphemism, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Clichés | 2 answers |
| Recurring themes | 2 answers |
| Recurrent themes | 2 answers |
| metaphors | 2 answers |
| Metaphors, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Literary devices | 3 answers |
| Figures of speech | 7 answers |
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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 TROPES (5)
Were there any way to parade the circumstance and bedeck it with pleasing adornments of filed phrases, tropes and far-fetched similes, I would not grudge you a deal of verbal pageantry.
And, when they enquire respecting poetry and prose, and figures and tropes, and the dictates of taste, this happily prepares them for the investigations of prudence, and morals, and religious principles, and what is science, and what is truth.
They ransacked the clouds of sunset, the thunderbolts of heaven, the deeps of hell, and the splendor of the resurrection for tropes and metaphors, and hurled the result at the head of the guest of the evening.
The particular year they sang of was to be a particularly fine year, as who should say a fine child and forward, with congruous syntax at two years old, and ellipses, figures, and tropes.
Some cried; some swore; and the tropes and figures of Billingsgate were used without reserve in all their native zest and flavour; nor were those flowers of rhetoric unattended with significant gesticulation.
Quotes with TROPES (3)
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me. But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.
In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin, sometimes even a dead tree -- the act of leaving parts of the garden untended, and calling attention to its margins, seems to undermine any pretense to perfect power or wisdom on the part of the gardener. The margins of our gardens can be tropes too, but figures of irony rather than transcendence -- antidotes, in fact, to our hubris. It may …
Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social action designed to contest the gains made by the women's movement and the child protection movement. In efforts to characterise social workers and therapists as hysterical zealots, 'satanic ritual abuse' was, quite literally, 'made fun of': it became the subject of scorn and ridicule as interest groups sought to…
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 29 times in crossword archives (1969–2025).