Crossword-Solution: FELICITOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Felicitous | a. | Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skilful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “FELICITOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Nicely appropriate | 1 answer |
| exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style | 1 answer |
| pleasantly ingenious | 1 answer |
| Marked by good fortune | 2 answers |
| Apropos of | 10 answers |
| GOOD omen (pert. to) | 17 answers |
| suiting | 19 answers |
| Germane | 20 answers |
| apposite | 29 answers |
| apropos | 33 answers |
| In Place | 42 answers |
| Applicable | 55 answers |
| hopeful | 62 answers |
| Lucky ___ | 65 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
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with FELICITOUS (5)
She seemed to him so felicitous a product of nature and circumstance that his invention, musing on future combinations, was constantly catching its breath with the fear of stumbling into some brutal compression or mutilation of her beautiful personal harmony.
Hence, where matters of domestic experience, and the natural touches which make people real, can be introduced without anachronisms too striking, she is occasionally felicitous; and upon the whole we feel justified in saying that the book will bear looking into for the sake of those portions which have nothing whatever to do with the story.’ “Well, I suppose it is intended for satire; but don’t think anything more of it now, my dear.
Into another state, under new rule I knew myself was passing swift and sure; whereof the initiatory pang approached, felicitous annoy, as bitter-sweet as when the virgin band, the victors chaste, feel at the end the earthy garments drop, and rise with something of a rosy shame into immortal nakedness: so I lay, and let come the proper throe would thrill into the ecstasy and out-throb pain.
Suicide is not a national habit in Germany as it is in England.' 'But that poor creature, Werther, who committed suicide, was a German.' 'Werther is a fictitious character, and by no means a felicitous one; I am no admirer either of Werther or his author.
Rezanov responded in briefer but no less felicitous vein, and concluded by remarking that the only rift in the lute of his present enchanting experience was the fear that whereas he had nearly died of starvation several times during the past three years, he was now threatened with a far more ignominious end, so delicious and irresistible were the temptations that beset the wayfarer in this most hospitable land.
Quotes with FELICITOUS (3)
Love loves and in loving always looks beyond what it has in hand and possesses. The driving impulse [*Triebimpuls*] which arouses may tire out; love itself does not tire. This *sursum corda* which is the essence of love may take on fundamentally different forms at different elevations in the various regions of value. The sensualist is struck by the way the pleasure he gets from the objects of his enjoyment gives him less and less satisfaction while his driving impulse stays t…
Here the phenomenologist has nothing in common with the literary critic who, as has frequently been noted, judges a work that he could not create and, if we are to believe certain facile condemnations, would not want to create. A literary critic is a reader who is necessarily severe. By turning inside out like a glove an overworked complex that has become debased to the point of being part of the vocabulary of statesmen, we might say that the literary critic and the professor…
George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1976).