Crossword-Solution: PURISTS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PURISTS | anagram | STIRSUP |
We have 28 clues for the answer “PURISTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| French Academy members, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Sticklers for the rules | 1 answer |
| Sticklers for perfection | 1 answer |
| Precise persons. | 1 answer |
| Particular ones | 1 answer |
| Overparticular persons. | 1 answer |
| Ones not likely to break the rules | 1 answer |
| Meticulous grammarians. | 1 answer |
| Language conservatives | 1 answer |
| Grammar police, for instance | 1 answer |
| Grammar police, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Fanatics of a sort | 1 answer |
| Careful speakers. | 1 answer |
| Advocates of precise usage in language. | 1 answer |
| Strict observers of the rules | 1 answer |
| Strict rule-observers | 1 answer |
| Strict sorts | 1 answer |
| Tampering opponents | 1 answer |
| They don't compromise | 1 answer |
| They frown on slang | 1 answer |
| They go by the book | 2 answers |
| Sticklers | 2 answers |
| Uncompromising types | 2 answers |
| Precisionists | 2 answers |
| Pedants | 6 answers |
| colloquial speech | 10 answers |
| A COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSION | 10 answers |
| colloquial | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PURISTS (5)
Henry James used when he was writing his very Jamesiest, secured a job as a trusted messenger in the large city store or in the city's large store, if we are going to be purists about it, as the boy in question undoubtedly was? It seems that he had supported his widowed mother and a large family of brothers and sisters by shoveling snow and, I think, laying brick or something of that technical nature.
When style and language had once become the property of a living society, all the efforts of purists and archaists failed to secure their end.
There were purists of this kind at Rome; and their fastidiousness was censured by Horace, with that perfect good sense and good taste which characterise all his writings.
There were purists of this kind at the time of the revival of letters; and the two greatest scholars of that time raised their voices, the one from within, the other from without the Alps, against a scrupulosity so unreasonable.
English purists and academic computer scientists frequently look down on others for anthropomorphizing hardware and software, considering this sort of behavior to be characteristic of naive misunderstanding.
Quotes with PURISTS (3)
dianemoorewriter. com February 11, 2015 · From Love Thy Neighbor" On journalism and news purists as well as why I pursued print instead of TV journalism/news at the No. 1 journalism school in the country: news reporters are willing to take risks "so that people can base their lives on a foundation of truth not lies. That's why I do it -- to be the one responsible voice in the crowd." Page 105' "Love Thy Neighbor
Thus all art is propaganda and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda. But I do care when propaganda is confined to one side while the other is stripped and silent.
The concept of encounter also enables us to make clearer the important distinction between talent and creativity. Talent may well have its neurological correlates and can be studied as “given” to a person. A man or woman may have talent whether he or she uses it or not; talent can probably be measured in the person as such. But creativity can be seen only in the act. If we were purists, we would not speak of a “creative person,” but only of a creative act.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 27 times in crossword archives (1942–2023).