Crossword-Solution: ANILE 5 letters, 65 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Anile a. Old-womanish; imbecile.

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ANILE anagram AILNE, ALIEN, ALINE, ELAIN, ELIAN, ELINA, ENLAI, ILANE, ILEAN, INALE, LAINE, LANEI, LIANE, LINEA, NELIA

We have 65 clues for the answer “ANILE”

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Like a feeble crone 1 answer
Grandmotherly 1 answer
Infirm, as an old woman. 1 answer
Infirm, in away 1 answer
Like Miss Havisham 1 answer
Like Scott's Ulrica 1 answer
Like Ulrica in "Ivanhoe" 1 answer
Like a beldam 1 answer
Like a doddering old woman 1 answer
Like a doting dowager 1 answer
Like a dottering dowager 1 answer
Foolishly old-womanish 1 answer
Like a feeble old woman 1 answer
Like a grandam 1 answer
Like a weak old woman 1 answer
Like an old crone. 1 answer
Like an old lady 1 answer
Like an old woman 1 answer
Like some beldams 1 answer
Like some dodderers 1 answer
Like some grandams 1 answer
Like some oldsters 1 answer
Little old lady? 1 answer
Out of it, in a way 1 answer
Old-womanly 1 answer
Old-womanish (anagram of LIANE) 1 answer
Old-womanish 1 answer
Old ladyish 1 answer
Old and feeble 1 answer
Of old women. 1 answer
Like some senior citizens 1 answer
As an old woman. 1 answer
Retrograde term used to describe older women 1 answer
Crone-like 1 answer
Cronish. 1 answer
Weak minded. 1 answer
Like weak female nonagenarians 1 answer
Doddering, maybe 1 answer
ld-womanish 1 answer
Feeble and doddering 1 answer
of or like a feeble old woman 1 answer
Old woman-ish 2 answers
Marriageable 3 answers
Like a Crone 3 answers
Like Mother Hubbard 3 answers
Doddery 3 answers
superannuate 6 answers
Feeble-minded 6 answers
Doddering 8 answers
Crone 9 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
AEROCN
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Have they not to and of you, dear friend? A friend of mine was dining at a large dinner of clergymen, and a story, as true as the sausage story above given, was told regarding me, by one of those reverend divines, in whose frock sits some anile chatter-boxes, as any man who knows this world knows.
Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 2006
Bless your heart, passion is a manly thing, a womanly thing, a grand thing, not a feeble, quavering, palsied, anile, senile thing.
The Woman-Hater Charles Reade 2003
The feeblest commissioner was James-a-Croft, who had already exhibited himself with very anile characteristics, and whose subsequent manifestations were to seem like dotage.
History of the United Netherlands, 1588 John Lothrop Motley 2004
The other is, that the idiocy of the boy is so evenly balanced by the folly of the mother, as to present to the general reader rather a laughable burlesque on the blindness of anile dotage, than an analytic display of maternal affection in its ordinary workings.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2004
Amongst much that is sagacious, we feel and we resent with disgust a taint of falsehood diffused over these recent speculations from vulgar and even counterfeit incredulity; the one gross vice of German philosophy, not less determinate or less misleading than that vice which, heretofore, through many centuries, had impoverished this subject, and had stopped its discussion under the anile superstition of the ecclesiastical fathers.
Memorials and Other Papers V1 Thomas de Quincey 2004
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Herald Tribune, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 174 times in crossword archives (1942–2018).