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Crossword-Solution: VEBLEN 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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"The Theory of the Leisure Class" author Thorstein ___ 1 answer
Economist who wrote "The Theory of the Leisure Class" 1 answer
Famed U.S. social scientist: 1857–1929 1 answer
Social scientist Thorstein who wrote, "The possession of wealth confers honour; it is an invidious distinction" 1 answer
Thorstein ___ (social critic who coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption") 1 answer
U. S. sociologist (1857–1929). 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble VEBLEN6-letter words that start with V6-letter words that end in N6-letter words containing EB6-letter words containing EN6-letter words with V and E

Sentences with VEBLEN (5)

McGanum was to try to use that cheap X-ray outfit of his on an epithelioma, repaired a frock, drowsily heard Kennicott stoke the furnace, tried to read a page of Thorstein Veblen--and the day was gone.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 2006
THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS by Thorstein Veblen Chapter One ~~ Introductory The institution of a leisure class is found in its best development at the higher stages of the barbarian culture; as, for instance, in feudal Europe or feudal Japan.
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1997
Not many Americans refer to Thorston Veblen, Theodore Dreiser, Henry James, or to Gore Vidal, but the evaluations these authors made of the American character have been criticized by the majority of their compatriots whose sentimental vision of America cannot cope with legitimate observations.
The Civilization of Illiteracy Mihai Nadin 2000
What Veblen calls "the instinct of workmanship" grows on, slowly and irresistably; but the malign features of our industrial life are distinctively androcentric: the desire to get, of the hunter; interfering with the desire to give, of the mother; the desire to overcome an antagonist--originally masculine, interfering with the desire to serve and benefit--originally feminine.
Our Androcentric Culture, or The Man Made World Charlotte Perkins Gilman 2002
When I talked about wages and hours of labour, I was dealing with things that were remote from her, and difficult to make real; but Veblen’s theme, the idle rich, and the arts and graces whereby they demonstrate their power, was the stuff of which her life was made.
Sylvia’s Marriage Upton Sinclair 2004

Quotes with VEBLEN (2)

It is necessary to realize that the most sacrosanct article of sexual politics in the period, the Victorian doctrine of chivalrous protection and its familiar protestations of respect, rests upon the tacit assumption, a cleverly expeditious bit of humbug, that all women were "ladies" — namely members of that fraction of the upper classes and bourgeoisie which treated women to expressions of elaborate concern, while permitting them no legal or personal freedom. The psycho-poli…
Kate Millett Sexual Politics
Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninety-nine people who don't know what they are doing. They're involved in high finance. Fascinating form of gambling.
John Cage M: Writings '67-'72
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, New Yorker, NYT.

Used 5 times in crossword archives (1953–2023).