Crossword-Solution: GRIMNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Grimness | n. | Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “GRIMNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Prevailing mood of the times. | 1 answer |
| sombreness | 31 answers |
| sedateness | 32 answers |
| solemnity | 33 answers |
| stateliness | 33 answers |
| seriousness | 36 answers |
| Earnestness. | 38 answers |
| coldness | 40 answers |
| Ritual | 42 answers |
| primness | 42 answers |
| ALOOFNESS | 43 answers |
| impressiveness | 44 answers |
| diffidence | 46 answers |
| thoughtfulness | 47 answers |
| dignity | 71 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 GRIMNESS (5)
Lorry hacked the shoemaker’s bench to pieces, while Miss Pross held the candle as if she were assisting at a murder--for which, indeed, in her grimness, she was no unsuitable figure.
Newman had spoken with cheerful seriousness, but Madame de Bellegarde’s tone made him go on, after a meditative pause, with a certain light grimness of jocularity.
The beauty of the island is unveiled as diminishing distance shows you in distincter shape its lovely peaks, but it keeps its secret as you sail by, and, darkly inviolable, seems to fold itself together in a stony, inaccessible grimness.
But, like many people who think they have made a severe and sarcastic speech, which yet is clever of its kind, she began to relax in her grimness from the moment when she made this allusion to the surgery; and we turned to speculate on the way in which Mrs Jamieson would receive the news.
With a wary grimness, partly in his character, partly induced by the circumstances, he evaded an answer by saying, “I saw a young lady talking to Mrs.
Quotes with GRIMNESS (3)
While it is a truism to observe that if humans were angels, law would be unnecessary, we could equally turn the truism around, and note that if humans were devils, law would be pointless. In this sense, the law-making project always presupposes the improvability, if not the perfectibility, of humankind. Whether our view of human nature tends toward Hobbesian grimness or Rousseauian equanimity, we tend to think of law as critical to reducing brutality and violence.
When she was chair of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010, Daisy Goodwin wrote a controversial essay lamenting the 'unrelenting grimness' of so many novels and pointing out that 'generally great fiction contains light and shade'---not only misery but joy and humor. 'It is time for publishers to stop treating literary fiction as the novelistic equivalent of cod-liver oil: if it's nasty it must be good for you.
Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particularly of blood and wounds...
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1951).