Crossword-Solution: PROVERBIAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Proverbial | a. | Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. |
| Proverbial | a. | Of or pertaining to proverbs; resembling a proverb. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “PROVERBIAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Commonly spoken of | 1 answer |
| Often said. | 1 answer |
| of or like a proverb | 1 answer |
| time-honoured | 5 answers |
| gnomic | 5 answers |
| Time-honored | 6 answers |
| Household | 29 answers |
| notorious | 43 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PROVERBIAL (5)
Just.” The proverbial wet-blanket seemed to have fallen over the merry little company gathered round the table.
Peculiar in the unwritten annals of the jungle was the proverbial love that had existed between the ape-man and the tribe of Tantor.
ARGUMENT The argument of the Republic is the search after Justice, the nature of which is first hinted at by Cephalus, the just and blameless old man--then discussed on the basis of proverbial morality by Socrates and Polemarchus--then caricatured by Thrasymachus and partially explained by Socrates--reduced to an abstraction by Glaucon and Adeimantus, and having become invisible in the individual reappears at length in the ideal State which is constructed by Socrates.
Brocardica, Brocardicorum opus, a collection of ecclesiastical canons by Burkhard, Bishop of Worms, called, by the Italians and French, Brocard.] An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics.
What had brought her to this pass? What weakness had placed her so abominably at her enemy’s mercy? And why should Bertha Dorset have turned into an enemy at the very moment when she so obviously needed the support of her sex? Even while his nerves raged at the subjection of husbands to their wives, and at the cruelty of women to their kind, reason obstinately harped on the proverbial relation between smoke and fire.
Quotes with PROVERBIAL (3)
There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.
My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to report him for child molesting. He had never molested me, but I wanted to have a party that weekend and needed him out of the house.
... the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected" from collapsing. (p. 21)
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1969–2017).