Crossword-Solution: DRAFTY
We have 33 clues for the answer “DRAFTY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like an uninsulated room | 1 answer |
| Prompting shivers | 1 answer |
| Poorly sealed, maybe | 1 answer |
| Poorly insulated, say | 1 answer |
| Poorly insulated, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Poorly insulated, maybe | 1 answer |
| Poorly insulated | 1 answer |
| Not well insulated | 1 answer |
| Not snug | 1 answer |
| Not keeping out the wind | 1 answer |
| Not keeping out gusts | 1 answer |
| Not keeping out cold air | 1 answer |
| Not insulated | 1 answer |
| Not airtight | 1 answer |
| Like most barns | 1 answer |
| Like an overventilated room | 1 answer |
| Like a hospital gown, maybe | 1 answer |
| In need of caulking, maybe | 1 answer |
| Improperly ventilated. | 1 answer |
| Improperly insulated, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Having open windows, maybe | 1 answer |
| Hardly airtight | 1 answer |
| Admitting air currents | 1 answer |
| Like some attics | 2 answers |
| Needing caulking | 2 answers |
| Not stifling | 2 answers |
| Exposed to the wind | 2 answers |
| draughty | 5 answers |
| ABOUNDING IN OR EXPOSED TO THE WIND OR BREEZES | 10 answers |
| Airtight It may be | 10 answers |
| Caulking material | 12 answers |
| windswept | 21 answers |
| Breezy | 41 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DRAFTY (5)
And she'd sit on the edge of her cot, with her feet on the soap box--the floor was drafty--wrapped in a pink satin negligee with bands of brown fur on it, looking sweet and perfectly happy, and let him feed her boiled egg with a spoon.
Meanwhile his Lordship, in the dreary and drafty halls of his castle, saw all this up-start splendour and regretted the day when first he had signed away a single one of his sovereign rights and prerogatives.
His head was already aching from the wine and he did not feel comfortable in the drafty old building.
This set him endeavoring to remember something of his father's house, of the large rooms, drafty staircases, and far-off ceilings, and the cold formality of a life that seemed made up of strange faces; some stranger--his parents; some kinder--the servants; particularly the black nurse who had him in charge.
Drafty: worthless, vile; no better than draff or dregs; from the Anglo-Saxon, “drifan” to drive away, expel.
Quotes with DRAFTY (3)
The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it’s too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?
The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in progress. For the past fifty or so, a kind of slow terror has been rising in his breast. All these pages had seemed necessary. They contain many good things. Ironies. Insights. And yet they seem to have a certain ineffable unsatisfactoriness. There is a word to describe this quality, the writer thinks, a horrible word. The B word. He begins to strike his forehead with a sweaty palm.
I find it strange that practicing law in a comfortable well-heated office is considered too demanding an occupation for women, yet laboring from dawn's first light in crowded, drafty, ill-lit sweatshops is not.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 27 times in crossword archives (1959–2025).