Crossword-Solution: CONTRETEMPS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contretemps | n. | An unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarrassing; a hitch. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “CONTRETEMPS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Awkward mishap. | 1 answer |
| Difference of opinion – protects men (anag) | 1 answer |
| minor dispute or disagreement | 1 answer |
| Slight dispute | 1 answer |
| Awkward occurrence or situation | 1 answer |
| Awkward clash | 1 answer |
| Embarrassing occurrence. | 2 answers |
| Minor disagreement | 2 answers |
| Embarrassing moment | 3 answers |
| Minor argument | 4 answers |
| AN AWKWARD CLASH | 11 answers |
| technical hitch | 13 answers |
| Kerfuffle | 17 answers |
| spot of trouble | 18 answers |
| Accident | 45 answers |
| Misfortune | 83 answers |
| Hitch | 91 answers |
| Quarrel | 96 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AEECMZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CONTRETEMPS (5)
Why, there were fifty years of life in this fine, nimble body but for any contretemps like that of the deplorable present! Thus his meditations stumbled.
There was only one contretemps during the whole interview—the arrival of another visitor, in the shape (surely) the last of God’s creatures, a wood-worm of the most unnatural and hideous appearance, with one great striped horn sticking out of his nose like a boltsprit.
This afternoon, as I was reading in my cabin, little Sam Edwards ran in, saying, "Mountain Jim wants to speak to you." This brought to my mind images of infinite worry, gauche servants, "please Ma'am," contretemps, and the habit growing out of our elaborate and uselessly conventional life of magnifying the importance of similar trifles.
Ballantrae would have held on; indeed, there was nothing in this _contretemps_ to affect the mind of any soldier; but he had a quick perception of the men’s wishes, and it was plain this lucky shot had given them a sickener of their trade.
Ruth, confronted with their knowledge, confessed, with flushed cheeks and glowing eyes, her contretemps.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1945–2022).