Crossword-Solution: LINGERING 9 letters, 55 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Lingering p. pr. & vb. n. of Linger
Lingering a. Delaying.
Lingering a. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a
lingering disease.

We have 55 clues for the answer “LINGERING”

Clue Answers
Hanging around, often undesirably 1 answer
Sticking around longer than necessary 1 answer
Not gone yet 1 answer
Not going away 1 answer
Like a stubborn cold 1 answer
Hovering 6 answers
longation 13 answers
plangent 14 answers
reverberant 15 answers
Resounding. 20 answers
Slowed 21 answers
Dilly-dallying 22 answers
basso 26 answers
resonant 27 answers
ringing 28 answers
unhasty 29 answers
Waster 30 answers
sounding 30 answers
straggler 30 answers
DEFERRED ___ 31 answers
decelerating 31 answers
Echoing. 31 answers
BRAKING 31 answers
Delayed 32 answers
Held (up) 32 answers
slob 32 answers
dilatory 33 answers
postponed 35 answers
Protracted 35 answers
slowcoach 35 answers
Scallywag 36 answers
Layabout 38 answers
slowing 39 answers
Dawdler 40 answers
procrastinating 41 answers
vibrating 41 answers
slacker 42 answers
shirker 43 answers
measured 44 answers
Vibrant 46 answers
Lazybones 47 answers
sonorous 48 answers
Tardy 49 answers
Idler 50 answers
Laggard 54 answers
Leisurely 54 answers
Time-out 55 answers
belated 56 answers
Relaxing 57 answers
tarrying 58 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LINGERING (5)

You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
There among the reeds and rushes Found he Shingebis, the diver, Trailing strings of fish behind him, O’er the frozen fens and moorlands, Lingering still among the moorlands, Though his tribe had long departed To the land of Shawondasee.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
Lingering and musing here, he heard the steps of a horse at the foot of the hill, and soon there appeared in view an auburn pony with a girl on its back, ascending by the path leading past the cattle-shed.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
She could not see Chauvelin, but she could almost feel those keen, pale eyes of his fixed maliciously upon her helpless form, and his hurried, whispered words reached her ear, as the death-knell of her last faint, lingering hope.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
Tom went to bed that night planning vengeance against Alfred Temple; for with shame and repentance Becky had told him all, not forgetting her own treachery; but even the longing for vengeance had to give way, soon, to pleasanter musings, and he fell asleep at last with Becky’s latest words lingering dreamily in his ear— “Tom, how _could_ you be so noble!” CHAPTER XXI Vacation was approaching.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with LINGERING (3)

So tonight I reach for my journal again. This is the first time I’ve done this since I came to Italy. What I write in my journal is that I am weak and full of fear. I explain that Depression and Loneliness have shown up, and I’m scared they will never leave. I say that I don’t want to take the drugs anymore, but I’m frightened I will have to. I am terrified that I will never really pull my life together. In response, somewhere from within me, rises a now-familiar presence, of…
Elizabeth Gilbert
I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. I think it is deemed good that you two should live in peace and be happy - not as angels but as few are happy amongst mortals. Some lives are thus blessed: it is God's will: it is the attesting trace and lingering evidence of Eden. Other lives run from the first another course. Other travellers encounter weather fitful and gusty wild and variable - breast adverse winds are belated and overtaken …
Charlotte Bronte Villette
Romance is a tender kiss with a lingering promise of more to come.
Tim Campbell
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1971–2023).