Crossword-Solution: PEREMPTORY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Peremptory | a. | Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final. |
| Peremptory | a. | Positive in opinion or judgment; decided; dictatorial; dogmatical. |
| Peremptory | a. | Firmly determined; unawed. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “PEREMPTORY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay | 1 answer |
| Unable to be challenged, like some commands | 1 answer |
| Not open to appeal, as a court decision | 1 answer |
| Demanding prompt and unquestioning obedience | 1 answer |
| sibylline | 13 answers |
| NEEDING order | 17 answers |
| LEAVING no option | 18 answers |
| prognosticating | 18 answers |
| GIVING of order | 18 answers |
| BROOKING no refusal | 18 answers |
| prophesying | 20 answers |
| soothsaying | 21 answers |
| sententious | 22 answers |
| Emphatic | 30 answers |
| Bossy | 34 answers |
| proclaiming | 41 answers |
| Tyrannical | 41 answers |
| Mandatory | 43 answers |
| Imperial | 44 answers |
| assertive | 46 answers |
| Obligatory | 48 answers |
| Urgent | 52 answers |
| dogmatic | 52 answers |
| Deadly | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PEREMPTORY (5)
His first care was given to the child, whose cries, indeed, as she lay writhing on the trundle-bed, made it of peremptory necessity to postpone all other business to the task of soothing her.
But she had not time to conjecture, for presently there was a peremptory call at the door, and the next moment it was violently thrown open from the outside, whilst a rough, commanding voice shouted,— “Hey! Citoyen Brogard! Holá!” Marguerite could not see the newcomers, but, through a hole in one of the curtains, she could observe one portion of the room below.
With the peremptory addition, “You must not come home.” Clara and her husband sailed from here on the 11th of this month.
Clayton was quick to lend a hand, but the ape-man jabbered to him in a commanding and peremptory tone something which Clayton knew to be orders, though he could not understand them.
Come! Escort my daughter to the camp, while I make the proper apologies to this gentleman.” As he saw that both Virginia and von Horn hesitated, he repeated his command in a peremptory tone, adding; “Quick, now; do as I bid you.” The moment had given von Horn an opportunity to regain his self-control, and realizing as well as did his employer, but from another motive, the necessity of keeping the truth from the girl, he took her arm and led her gently from the scene.
Quotes with PEREMPTORY (3)
The tavern keeper, a wiry man with a sharp-nosed face, round, prominent ears and a receding hairline that combined to give him a rodentlike look, glanced at him, absentmindedly wiping a tankard with a grubby cloth. Will raised an eyebrow as he looked at it. He'd be willing to bet the cloth was transferring more dirt to the tankard then it was removing. "Drink?" the tavern keeper asked. He set the tankard down on the bar, as if in preparation for filling it with whatever the s…
A book a week I heave a sigh; That Slogan's peremptory cry I will not hear, I will not heed. How can They say that I should need The book They bid me weekly buy? But Slogans change, as days go by; My Psyche listens, fluttering shy, To newer message "Come and Read A book a week." To read! to read! O wings that fly O'er sun-kissed lands, through clouded sky That bear us on where Great ones lead! I too must follow, so I plead For magic wings. I'll read (or try) A book a week!
Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expression.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2024).