Crossword clues for enabler
enabler
- Addict's co-dependent
- Harmful helper
- Addict's helper
- Unhelpful helper
- Someone who makes something possible for another
- One who facilitates self-destructive behavior
- One who eschews tough love
- Friend who's all like, "Don't worry about that paper due tomorrow, come binge-drink with me!!!"
- Co-dependency figure
- Addict's accomplice
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, agent noun from enable.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who helps something to happen. 2 One who encourages a bad habit in another (typically drug addiction) by his or her behaviour. 3 One who gives someone else the power to behave in a certain way.
Usage examples of "enabler".
She activated the sleep cycle enabler for the second time, and woke eight hours later, this time clearheaded enough to realize that the first sleep hadn’t been enough.
Billy took the enabler back out of its socket and slipped it into his vest.
Angel's advocate, enabler, or audience—I can go any way you like, Eva.
Angel's advocate, enabler, or audienceI can go any way you like, Eva.
In short, he’d been a mere instrument of convenience, an enabler, a facilitator, so to speak, an all-around nice guy who’d tried to be helpful, was all.
They had become the enablers, providing cover and an appearance of reasonableness so Cheney and Rumsfeld worked their will.
I can’t believe your enablers actually implied your drunk driving conviction wasn’t as offensive as Clinton’s transgressions.
All the stock phrases Skiba had heard from every other crooked company and their legions of enablers got trotted out.