Crossword-Solution: DEMUR 5 letters, 121 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Demur v. i. To linger; to stay; to tarry.
Demur v. i. To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in
view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the
determination or conclusion of an affair.
Demur v. i. To scruple or object; to take exception; as, I demur to
that statement.
Demur v. i. To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2.
Demur v. t. To suspend judgment concerning; to doubt of or hesitate
about.
Demur v. t. To cause delay to; to put off.
Demur v. i. Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of
decision or action; scruple.

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DEMUR anagram DERUM, DURME, EDRUM, MURED

We have 121 clues for the answer “DEMUR”

Clue Answers
Be objective? 1 answer
Enter an objection 1 answer
Express hesitation 1 answer
Gently protest 1 answer
Have scruples 1 answer
Hesitate due to doubt 1 answer
Hesitate from uncertainty 1 answer
Make an objection 1 answer
Make bones about something 1 answer
Object, but not strongly 1 answer
Offer objections. 1 answer
Protest gently 1 answer
RAISE scruples at 1 answer
Refuse to agree 1 answer
Say you disagree 1 answer
Take exception to something 1 answer
Voice a formal objection 1 answer
Voice an objection (to) 1 answer
Voice one's opposition 1 answer
Voice opposition 1 answer
Voice reservations 1 answer
Weakly object 1 answer
raise objections or show reluctance 1 answer
Show reluctance 2 answers
Raise doubts 2 answers
ANSWER negatively 2 answers
Beg to differ 2 answers
Express doubts 2 answers
Formal objection, in court 2 answers
MAKE difficulties 2 answers
OFFER objection 2 answers
Raise an objection 2 answers
Raise objection. 2 answers
Take exception 2 answers
Voice an objection 2 answers
beg off 3 answers
Balk at 3 answers
demurrer 3 answers
object formally 3 answers
Stickle 4 answers
TAKE exception to 6 answers
object to 6 answers
RAISE objections 9 answers
A FORMAL OBJECTION TO AN OPPONENT'S PLEADINGS 10 answers
A DRINK OF CLARET IS AN EXCEPTION 10 answers
BE RELUCTANT 10 answers
A CUBELIKE OBJECT 10 answers
BE OPPOSED 11 answers
remonstration 12 answers
Jib 15 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with DEMUR (5)

When dawn came Tarzan explained his plan of battle to the warriors, and without demur one and all agreed that it was the safest and surest way in which to rid themselves of their unwelcome visitors and be revenged for the murder of their fellows.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Yet a promise was a promise, and, again, was it not true that but for von Horn she would have been dead or worse than dead in a short time had she not been rescued from the clutches of the soulless Bulan? Thus did the old man justify his action, and clinch the determination that he had before reached to compel Virginia to wed von Horn should she, from some incomprehensible motive, demur.
The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994
His own possessions, safety, life, he would have hazarded for Lucie and her child, without a moment’s demur; but the great trust he held was not his own, and as to that business charge he was a strict man of business.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
The young man made some feeble demur, but it was obvious to the bookseller that he was vastly elated at the idea of making Miss Chapman's acquaintance.
The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008
Will ye renounce this pact of creatureship? The pattern on the Mount subsists no more, {625} Seemed awhile, then returned to nothingness; But copies, Moses strove to make thereby, Serve still and are replaced as time requires: By these, make newest vessels, reach the type! If ye demur, this judgment on your head, {630} Never to reach the ultimate, angels’ law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing! “Such is the burthen of the latest time.
Introduction to Robert Browning Hiram Corson 2008

Quotes with DEMUR (2)

most Americans think of Rosa Parks as a demur, pleasant-enough seamstress who backed into history by being too tired to get out of her seat on a bus one day, in reality she had been trained in nonviolence spirit and tactics at a famous institution, Highlander Folk School. It seems to be a difficult concept for most of us that peace is a skill that can be learned. We know war can be learned, but we seem to think that one becomes a peacemaker by a mere change of heart. (23)
Mahatma Gandhi
Friendship which is of its nature a delicate thing fastidious slow of growth is easily checked will hesitate demur recoil where love good old blustering love bowls ahead and blunders through every obstacle.
Colette
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 129 times in crossword archives (1954–2023).