Crossword-Solution: SILKINESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Silkiness | n. | The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness. |
| Silkiness | n. | Fig.: Effeminacy; weakness. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “SILKINESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hair quality promised by some shampoos | 1 answer |
| Smooth, lustrous quality | 2 answers |
| ARTICULACY | 16 answers |
| velvetiness | 16 answers |
| slickness | 16 answers |
| Effortlessness | 16 answers |
| persuasiveness | 17 answers |
| articulateness | 18 answers |
| perspicuity | 19 answers |
| expressiveness | 23 answers |
| fluency | 28 answers |
| Eloquence | 34 answers |
| lucidity | 37 answers |
| smoothness | 44 answers |
| Efficiency | 49 answers |
| Gloss | 62 answers |
| Expression | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SILKINESS (5)
Instantly, from an open- mouthed, fang-bristling dog in full career of attack, he melted into a bundle of softness and silkiness, that trotted to the open hand and kissed it with a tongue that flashed out between white gleaming teeth like a rose-red jewel.
Walter Merritt Emory saw, with seeming careless look out from under careless-drooping eyelids, the little finger slightly swollen, slightly twisted, with a smooth, almost shiny, silkiness of skin-texture.
Her father in fond pride straightened one glossy curl, for an instant, as if to display its length and silkiness.
The sun, not yet far above the horizon, threw a rosy light over the steely silkiness of its broad surface.
There was a certain magnificence about her arms, shoulders, hair, which had darkened since he first knew her, about the turn of her neck, the silkiness of her garments, her dark-lashed, greyblue eyes—she was certainly as handsome at forty as she had ever been.
Quotes with SILKINESS (3)
His body is pressed against my back, his arm is wrapped protectively around my waist, his breath a delicious tickle against my neck. The room is very cold; it would be nice to climb under the covers, but I don’t want to move. I don’t want him to move. I run my fingers along his bare forearm, remembering the warmth of his lips, the silkiness of his hair between my fingers. The boy who never sleeps, sleeping. Coming to rest upon the Cassiopeian shore, an island in the middle of…
The silkiness of his voice was a torturous caress that I could have endured for the rest of my life.
I walked around him, champagne in hand. Great feeling.-Give me a flash, he said — just a little quick… I flashed opened the coat as I strolled by. He exhaled with a sigh- O, he said, Please Again. This time I stood squarely in front of him. He was sitting on the beautiful new over stuffed chair, and swung the coat open, all the way open. And then slowly closed it, and walked away, hips and heels swaying away from him. I could hear the groan. God, this was powerful. He came up…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2006–2010).