Thwarting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for THWARTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• prevent (someone) from accomplishing something
• oppose (a plan, attempt, or ambition) successfully
PREPOSITION:
• from one side to another side of; across
NOUN:
• the act of thwarting
• a structural crosspiece forming a seat for a rower in a boat.
• an act of hindering someone\'s plans or efforts
ADJECTIVE:
• obstructive
• preventing realization or attainment of a desire
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to prevent the accomplishment of

Words related to THWARTING

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How to use THWARTING in a sentence

• He threw others off their guard by thwarting their favourite theories, and then availed himself of the temperance of his own pulse to chafe them into madness.
• Johnston had been instrumental in thwarting the design.
• But once again, though less happily than on the former occasion, Nydia was destined to be the means of thwarting the schemes of the Egyptian.
• But these girls did not seem to be thinking of the possible war, or of the men who earned their bread thwarting it by preparation.
• But be that as it may, Booth suffered many a pang from the successes of the more dashing Wilks, and the latter never lost an opportunity of thwarting his associate.
• Heretofore his consciousness had felt merely the thwarting of his pride, his authority, his right to loyalty.
• Incredible as it appears, Rhodes believed this absurd fiction, and learned to look upon Sir Alfred Milner as a natural enemy, desirous of thwarting him at every step.
• Earnestness appears only when he is brooding over the slight with which he was treated, and the resultant thwarting of his career.
• And he again succeeded in thwarting the Maid of Orleans when he resisted her wish to make a second attack upon Paris.
• I own to you freely that I look on what I have done toward thwarting your relative in this matter as an act of virtue.
• Conformity to this requirement, besides preventing us from thwarting the normal process of evolution, incidentally secures positive benefits of importance.
• But so far from trying to cure himself of his indolence about daily drudgery, he found a new and pleasant excitement in thwarting the farm-bailiff at every turn.
• It would not sound dignified to say that the farm-bailiff took pleasure in thwarting John Broom.
• And when Llevelys saw this, and that there was a demon thwarting them and disturbing through this horn, he caused wine to be put therein to wash it.
• The lords and commons, animated by such opposite principles, seized every opportunity of thwarting each other.
• Thus the assembly secured the ascendancy of Louis Napoleon by the very means which they believed most efficacious in thwarting his power and restoring that of the Bourbons.
• Pakington, in adopting their policy, and thwarting a whig plenipotentiary.
• His sons were for ever thwarting his will and quarrelling with each other.
• For the time being at least his mind was too inflamed with rage over her daring in thwarting his will, to admit the consideration of any other problem.
• He seemed to read my fancies as they arose and to take pleasure in thwarting them.
• He was almost as angry with her for thwarting him as he was with his father.
• The constant thwarting of the purpose of the Jewish authorities by our Lord, His unsparing criticism of them before the people, had stirred them to fury.
• For three years she has persisted in thwarting me, and for three years we have not been happy together.
• The two dispositions vary in their strength in individuals, confirming each other when in concert, thwarting each other when opposed.
• Governor Seymour of New York obtained a discreditable preeminence in thwarting the administration.
• Saeng Seob resented him some for quaking and thwarting the direction of his passionate river that most men felt, rode, and defined themselves from.
• Some of the very missionaries who had been most prominent in thwarting and denouncing the land purchases of the New Zealand Company were themselves purchasers of land.
• Men by their sins and wilful failure to observe his benign laws were thwarting that purpose.
• The true reproach to which aristocracy and theism are open is the thwarting of those unequal natures and the consequent suffering imposed on them all.
• A distinct attitude of holding aloof from English influences is the only remedy against that peril and for thwarting that insidious policy.
• In the light of what the physician had told her, she realized that the boy was ignorantly thwarting the efforts of those who were trying to save his life.
• Jacob was a man of much military science, and he succeeded in thwarting all the efforts of the besiegers.
• The numerous friends of Catharine were excited, and were equally active in thwarting the plans of the tzar.
• And, since she bade him hope, hope he would, though every brick in London town became a Pixley set on thwarting him.
• Longstreet, however, did not oppose the views of his commander to the extent of thwarting his purpose or weakening the plan adopted.
• He described the difficulties which he had encountered and the machinations of the enemies who had been constantly thwarting him.

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