Crossword-Solution: DICTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Diction | n. | Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DICTION (5)
Both in gravity and in gayety he said more than he meant, and you did him simple justice if you privately concluded that neither the glow of purpose nor the chill of despair was of so intense a character as his florid diction implied.
There are still other times when the literature is a little too ornate for beauty, and the diction is journalistic, reporteristic.
Her conception of the character was as heavy and uncompromising as her diction; she bore hard on the idea and on the consonants.
There are, after all, but comparatively few instances in Browning’s poetry, where these features of his diction can be fairly condemned.
With what bitter savor, with what grossness of diction, caught from the Elizabethan and satirical elements in his culture, he spends anger in words! He reacts, he rebels, he storms.
Quotes with DICTION (3)
Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words. It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.
We didn't, after all, sing "Another One Bites The Dust" as the coffin was carried out; Hazel and the vicar had settled instead on the more traditional "How Great Thou Art". And Aunty Rose's old adversary the mayor was pressed into service as a coffin bearer to replace Matt. Rose Adele Thornton, born in Bath, England, died in Waimanu, New Zealand, a mere fifty-three years later. Adept and compassionate nurse, fervent advocate of animal welfare, champion of correct diction and …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1951–2019).