Crossword-Solution: LAMENESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lameness | n. | The condition or quality of being lame; as, the lameness of an excuse or an argument. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LAMENESS | anagram | MALENESS, MANELESS, NAMELESS, SALESMEN |
We have 4 clues for the answer “LAMENESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Equine disability | 1 answer |
| Ineffectuality, as excuses go | 1 answer |
| Tiny Tim's problem | 1 answer |
| Limping | 10 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
CEZMEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with LAMENESS (5)
Again I remarked his lameness and the soft padding sound of his footfall, and standing up in my place, I saw his feet as he went out.
His cruelty and meanness were especially displayed in his treatment of my unfortunate cousin, Henny, whose lameness made her a burden to him.
She was proficient in the making of preserves and unguents, could play the harpsichord and the virginals acceptably, could embroider an altarcloth to admiration, and, in spite of a trivial lameness in walking, could dance a coranto or a saraband against any woman between two seas.
Wrinkles were beginning to show themselves; it required all the skill of his valet to conceal the bald spots on his cranium; and since his fall from his horse, he had been troubled by a slight stiffness in his right leg, which stiffness became perfect lameness in threatening weather.
But when they hailed him as Prince and King, and explained to him how matters stood, and went down on their knees before him, offering the crown (on a velvet cushion, with four golden tassels, each nearly as big as his head),--small though he was and lame, which lameness the courtiers pretended not to notice,--there came such a glow into his face, such a dignity into his demeanor, that he became beautiful, king-like.
Quotes with LAMENESS (3)
In the long second before everyone absorbs what just happened, I see the angel rolling his eyes heavenward, like a teenager in the presence of overwhelming lameness. Some people just have no sense of gratitude.
What people instinctively regard as cool is real power - consistency. Pathetic is not cool. Being locked in a tragedy, but not knowing it. That's lameness.
Don't worry about it, Borage. I've always been inclined to think that the Apostle Paul was similarly afflicted. He speaks often of a bodily weakness, and men have been at pains to name it, attibuting to him everything from lameness to lung sickness. But I think the clue lies in his experience on the road to Damascus. Tell me, do you see a great light? Dr. Trudgett
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1989–2018).