Crossword-Solution: MAIDENLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Maidenly | a. | Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved. |
| Maidenly | adv. | In a maidenlike manner. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “MAIDENLY”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Pertaining to a spinster | 1 answer |
| Like young women | 1 answer |
| Like an old-fashioned girl. | 1 answer |
| Gentle or modest. | 1 answer |
| Like a lass | 2 answers |
| unwedded | 3 answers |
| girlish | 4 answers |
| Virginal | 27 answers |
| meritorious | 47 answers |
| conformant | 49 answers |
| reputable | 54 answers |
| respectable | 54 answers |
| seemly | 55 answers |
| Decorous | 56 answers |
| Passable | 58 answers |
| Venerable | 59 answers |
| Befitting | 60 answers |
| creditable | 61 answers |
| Tolerable | 61 answers |
| Equitable | 61 answers |
| Becoming | 63 answers |
| ABOVEBOARD | 64 answers |
| Gentle | 71 answers |
| True | 102 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with MAIDENLY (5)
The maidenly bosom bared to this, the pretty almost-child’s head thus distracted, the delicate foot mincing in this slough of blood and dirt, were types of the disjointed time.
From his own personal point of view Bernard had no complaint to make of this maidenly urbanity, but he kept reminding himself that he was not in question and that everything must be looked at in the light of Gordon’s requirements.
She had loved this man deeply, in a maidenly, modest way; but he had gone away without speaking, and had not since written.
But she began to take a melancholy pleasure in contemplating the sacrifice of herself to the man whom a maidenly sense of propriety compelled her to regard as her only possible husband.
This maidenly retreat had in fact impressed Madame de Chantelle so favourably that she was disposed for the first time to talk over Owen’s projects; and as every human event translated itself for her into terms of social and domestic detail, Anna had perforce to travel the same round again.
Quotes with MAIDENLY (2)
There is a code of behavior, she knew, whose seventh article (it may be) says that on occasions of this sort it behooves the woman, whatever her own occupation may be, to go to the help of the young man opposite so that he may expose and relieve the thigh bones, the ribs, of his vanity, of his urgent desire to assert himself; as indeed it is their duty, she reflected, in her old maidenly fairness, to help us, suppose the Tube were to burst into flames. Then, she thought, I sh…
The critics greeted this book with a churlish and horrified outcry. Certain virtuous people, in newspapers no less virtuous, made a grimace of disgust as they picked it up with the tongs to throw it into the fire. Even the minor literary reviews, the ones that retail nightly the tittle-tattle from alcoves and private rooms, held their noses and talked of filth and stench. I am not complaining about this reception; on the contrary I am delighted to observe that my colleagues h…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1952–2001).