Crossword-Solution: PLACIDITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Placidity | n. | The quality or state of being placid; calmness; serenity. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “PLACIDITY”
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| Imperturbability | 22 answers |
| Naturalness | 57 answers |
| truce | 59 answers |
| mitigation | 60 answers |
| succour | 62 answers |
| candour | 65 answers |
| fairness | 68 answers |
| Advan-tage | 87 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLACIDITY (5)
Being a woman with some good sense in reasoning on subjects wherein her heart was not involved, Bathsheba genuinely repented that a freak which had owed its existence as much to Liddy as to herself, should ever have been undertaken, to disturb the placidity of a man she respected too highly to deliberately tease.
She did so this afternoon.” “Yes; she mustn’t come out any more,” said Miss Tita, with one of her lapses into a deeper placidity.
There was a bath in the pavilion, and in that I regaled myself gladly, though there was some paltry scent added to the water that took away half its refreshing power; and then I set myself to wait with all outward composure and placidity.
The youngsters had planned all its routes and halts and details of time and connections, and he had gone along, with cheerful placidity, to look at the things they bade him observe, and to pay the bills.
His campfire yarns, the attitude of his cowboys toward their horses, what he has to say about cows, the metaphor of the range as he has recorded it, the placidity of his cowboys as opposed to Zane Grey sensationalism, etc., are a few of the subjects to be derived from a study of his books.
Quotes with PLACIDITY (3)
I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man …
The intriguing placidity from the slothful pace of a snail is truly very peaceful. Our world is in need of this calmness to pacify itself
A more fundamental problem with labelling human distress and deviance as mental disorder is that it reduces a complex, important, and distinct part of human life to nothing more than a biological illness or defect, not to be processed or understood, or in some cases even embraced, but to be ‘treated’ and ‘cured’ by any means possible — often with drugs that may be doing much more harm than good. This biological reductiveness, along with the stigma that it attracts, shapes the…