Crossword-Solution: DALLIANCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dalliance | n. | The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. |
| Dalliance | n. | Delay or procrastination. |
| Dalliance | n. | Entertaining discourse. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “DALLIANCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Brief involvement | 1 answer |
| Fleeting affair | 1 answer |
| Playful flirtation | 1 answer |
| Trifling Democrat's first association (9) | 1 answer |
| the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | 1 answer |
| Casual affair | 2 answers |
| Hanky panky | 3 answers |
| Hanky-panky | 4 answers |
| waste of time | 7 answers |
| Shilly-shally | 12 answers |
| flirtation | 13 answers |
| Idleness | 66 answers |
| Dawdling | 69 answers |
| Affairs | 69 answers |
| Trifling | 96 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DALLIANCE (5)
Neererhe drew, and many a walk travers’d Of stateliest Covert, Cedar, Pine, or Palme, Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen Among thick-wov’n Arborets and Flours Imborderd on each Bank, the hand of _Eve_: Spot more delicious then those Gardens feign’d Or of reviv’d _Adonis_, or renownd _Alcinous_, host of old _Laertes_ Son, Or that, not Mystic, where the Sapient King Held dalliance with his faire _Egyptian_ Spouse.
Softly he padded the pathway unto the porch, and within Heard he the low laugh of dalliance, heard he the rapture of sin.
She had had, as he could well imagine, no romping girlhood, no season of careless, light-hearted dalliance with opening life, no violent alternation even of the usual griefs and joys of youth.
And when the universal music has led lovers into the paths of dalliance, confident of Nature’s sympathy, suddenly the air shifts into a minor, and death makes a clutch from his ambuscade below the bed of marriage.
How was he to explain at home these hours of dalliance? There was a steadfast rule that he return direct from Sunday-school; and Sunday rules were important, because on that day there was his father, always at home and at hand, perilously ready for action.
Quotes with DALLIANCE (3)
The bond between husband and wife is a strong one. Suppose the man had hunted her out and brought her back. The memory of her acts would still be there, and inevitably, sooner or later, it would be cause for rancor. When there are crises, incidents, a woman should try to overlook them, for better or for worse, and make the bond into something durable. The wounds will remain, with the woman and with the man, when there are crises such as I have described. It is very foolish fo…
The realistic style is easy to abuse: from haste, from lack of awareness, from inability to bridge the chasm that lies between what a writer would like to be able to say and what he actually knows how to say. It is easy to fake; brutality is not strength, flipness is not wit, edge-of-the-chair writing can be as boring as flat writing; dalliance with promiscuous blondes can be very dull stuff when described by goaty young men with no other purpose in mind than to describe dalliance with promiscuous blondes.
... whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1978–2023).