Crossword-Solution: XANTIPPE
We have 12 clues for the answer “XANTIPPE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Prototype of a shrew. | 1 answer |
| Scolding wife: Var. | 1 answer |
| Socrates' bad-tempered wife. | 1 answer |
| Socrates' scolding wife. | 1 answer |
| SOCRATES, wife of | 2 answers |
| Wife of Socrates | 2 answers |
| Shrewish wife | 3 answers |
| Shrewish woman | 5 answers |
| Xanthippe | 6 answers |
| A SCOLDING OLD WOMAN | 10 answers |
| Virago | 30 answers |
| Scold | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ACENRO
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with XANTIPPE (5)
Naturally, I soon plunged into speaking, and my first public speech at college was a defense of Xantippe.
The woman was declaiming with the fury of a Xantippe, while the man was answering her with Homeric laughter.
Violence was always Chandler's note, so much so that a scornful opponent once called him "Xantippe in pants." Lincoln had given Chandler a cause of offense in McClellan's elevation to the head of the army.* McClellan was a Democrat.
For in his dreams he saw Xantippe and his child starving and crying for food, and he was unable to help them in any way.
Xantippe hid her face on her husband’s breast and cried softly, while she murmured, “No, no; I will never consent.” “Then the child will die,” answered the Greek, curtly, flinging her from him.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1959–2007).