Crossword-Solution: LINGERING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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 …
Romance is a tender kiss with a lingering promise of more to come.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1971–2023).