Crossword-Solution: FLITTING 8 letters, 35 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Flitting p. pr. & vb. n. of Flit
Flitting n. A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
Flitting n. A removal from one habitation to another.

We have 35 clues for the answer “FLITTING”

Clue Answers
Light rapid movement. 1 answer
travelling swiftly 6 answers
protem 39 answers
disappearing 40 answers
gliding by 41 answers
fugacious 41 answers
Deciduous 41 answers
dissipating 41 answers
visiting 42 answers
speeding by 42 answers
flashing by 42 answers
Stopgap 42 answers
Vanishing 42 answers
perishable 43 answers
nonce 43 answers
Ebbing 44 answers
discontinuous 44 answers
Going by 45 answers
migratory 45 answers
transitory 46 answers
evanescent 47 answers
impermanent 47 answers
Momentarily 48 answers
momentary 48 answers
to pass 49 answers
Ephemeral 51 answers
Swiftly 53 answers
Fading 54 answers
Temporal 55 answers
Makeshift 60 answers
departing 62 answers
Hasty 66 answers
Declining 70 answers
Flying 76 answers
Short 99 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FLITTING (5)

Her heart erratically flitting hither and thither from perplexed excitement, hot, and almost tearful, she retreated homeward, murmuring, “Oh, what have I done! what does it mean! I wish I knew how much of it was true!” CHAPTER XXVII.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Youthful men, not having taken a deep root, give up their hold of life so easily! And saintly men, who walk with God on earth, would fain be away, to walk with him on the golden pavements of the New Jerusalem.” “Nay,” rejoined the young minister, putting his hand to his heart, with a flush of pain flitting over his brow, “were I worthier to walk there, I could be better content to toil here.” “Good men ever interpret themselves too meanly,” said the physician.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
All was silence in the dimly-lighted room, whilst the sound of the gavotte, the hum of distant talk and laughter, and the rumble of an occasional coach outside, only seemed to reach this palace of the Sleeping Beauty as the murmur of some flitting spooks far away.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
How good and kind they were, and how lovable their lives! In fancy I could see them all again, I could call the children back and hear them romp again with George—that peerless black ex-slave and children’s idol who came one day—a flitting stranger—to wash windows, and stayed eighteen years.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
All the news that could be gained was that remotenesses of the cavern were being ransacked that had never been visited before; that every corner and crevice was going to be thoroughly searched; that wherever one wandered through the maze of passages, lights were to be seen flitting hither and thither in the distance, and shoutings and pistol-shots sent their hollow reverberations to the ear down the sombre aisles.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with FLITTING (3)

She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows! — all are passing! — all is past!
Elizabeth Gaskell North and South
We could express this power in the following way: Most of the time we live in an interior world of dreams, desires, and obsessive thoughts. But in this period of exceptional creativity, we are impelled by the need to get something done that has a practical effect. We force ourselves to step outside our inner chamber of habitual thoughts and connect to the world, to other people, to reality. Instead of flitting here and there in a state of perpetual distraction, our minds focu…
Robert Greene Mastery
The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even oblivion is a sweet dream. You understand why, of course. Why this peculiar threat. These brooding psyches, all the busy minds everywhere. I hear them buzzing like flies in the blackness. I see them as glow worms flitting in the blackness. They are struggling, straining every second to keep the sky above them, to keep the sun in the…
Thomas Ligotti Grimscribe: His Lives and Works
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (1957).