Crossword-Solution: ALLUSIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Allusive | a. | Figurative; symbolical. |
| Allusive | a. | Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “ALLUSIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Containing passing references | 1 answer |
| Having reference to | 1 answer |
| Using indirect references | 1 answer |
| imperspicuous | 23 answers |
| Figurative. | 48 answers |
| implicit | 53 answers |
| Suggestive | 72 answers |
| equivocal | 79 answers |
| Enigmatic | 84 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ALLUSIVE (5)
The thought of the ridicule struck deeper than any other sensation: Lily knew every turn of the allusive jargon which could flay its victims without the shedding of blood.
Their little interview was like a picnic on a coral strand; they passed each other, with melancholy smiles and looks sufficiently allusive, such cupfuls of water as they had saved.
Hence in the elaborate, allusive oratory of Samoa, Malie is always referred to by the name of _Pule_ (authority) as having the power of the name, and Manono by that of _Ainga_ (clan, sept, or household) as forming the immediate family of the chief.
Knowledge has two good uses; it may be frankly communicated for the benefit of others, or it may minister matter to thought; an allusive writer often robs it of both these functions.
Immersed in a subject with which they were all familiar, they were allusive, elliptic, and persistently technical.
Quotes with ALLUSIVE (3)
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in this synthesis, I have found the attempt worth making.
Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1975–2004).