Crossword-Solution: FINESPUN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Finespun | a. | Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “FINESPUN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Delicately detailed. | 1 answer |
| Developed in delicate detail | 1 answer |
| Visionary, as a theory. | 1 answer |
| Like delicate fabric | 2 answers |
| DEVELOPED IN EXCESSIVELY FINE DETAIL | 10 answers |
| detailed | 66 answers |
| Elaborate | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FINESPUN (5)
Athens and Lacedaemon, that made the ancient laws and were so civilized, made toward living well a little sign, compared with thee that makest such finespun provisions, that to mid November reaches not, what thou in October spinnest.
This can never become popular and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for finespun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths.
Their finespun distinctions of deeds lawful and unlawful were spiders' webs, and His act of mercy flew high above the webs, like some fair winged creature glancing in the sunshine, while the spider sits in his crevice balked.
Chance is the explanation which comes to me first, till I reflect on the finespun chain which brought me to that particular spot and those particular words.
The finespun speculations of the philosophers and the impractical dreams of the artist make small appeal to them; the world they live in is a sharply defined and clearly lighted and rather limited place.
Quotes with FINESPUN (2)
She might not be sweet She might not be upbeat She is woman Her strength finespun — To the unkind, She changes her mind. Oh woman, solid purebred. Hold high your head.
Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again, as first I knew you in the timeless valley, where we shall feel ourselves anew, bedded on magic in the month of June. There was a place where all the sun went glistening in your hair, and from the hill we could have put a finger on a star. Where is the day that melted into one rich noise? Where the music of your flesh, the rhyme of your teeth, the dainty languor of your l…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1959–2018).