Crossword-Solution: BRICKBAT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Brickbat | n. | A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “BRICKBAT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Unwelcome missile. | 1 answer |
| Unfavorable remark | 1 answer |
| Hurled missile or insult | 1 answer |
| Heavy equipment for Sosa or McGwire? | 1 answer |
| Building material used as missile | 1 answer |
| Blunt criticism | 1 answer |
| Uncomplimentary remark | 2 answers |
| Hostile remark | 2 answers |
| Caustic criticism | 4 answers |
| Unkind remark | 6 answers |
| BLUNT CRITICISM FROM DECENT CHAP TO STRIKER | 10 answers |
| AN UNCOMPLIMENTARY DRESS | 10 answers |
| A FRAGMENT OF BRICK USED AS A WEAPON | 11 answers |
| CRITICAL remark | 13 answers |
| Missile ___ | 38 answers |
| Hunk | 60 answers |
| Affront | 77 answers |
| Insult | 84 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BRICKBAT (5)
They used knees and elbows and feet, and but for the timely presence of a brickbat beneath his fingers at the psychological moment Billy Byrne would have gone down to humiliating defeat.
Penrod at once took possession, retiring to the empty stable, where he installed the rats in a small wooden box with a sheet of broken window-glass--held down by a brickbat--over the top.
And I cannot hate the Kaiser (I hope you understand.) Yet I chase the thing he stands for with a brickbat in my hand.
Irving comes up afterwards and congratulates me, but whether upon the brilliancy of my performance, or upon my luck in getting off the stage before a brickbat is thrown at me, I cannot say.
Worse still is it to have some jagged brickbat, dug up from a heap of Patagonian rubbish, flung at you with a "we have all heard of"; or to be turned off, just as your ears are wide open to listen to an old pre-Thautic myth, with "the story of ---- is too familiar to need repetition." You have not the most distant conception what the story is, yet you don't like to say so, because it seems to be intimated that every intelligent person ought to know it; so you hold your peace.
Quotes with BRICKBAT (1)
'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1951–2014).