Crossword-Solution: STRICT 6 letters, 147 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Strict a. Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a
strict ligature.
Strict a. Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
Strict a. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep
strict watch; to pay strict attention.
Strict a. Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact
rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.
Strict a. Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined;
restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
Strict a. Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of
the plants or their flower clusters.

We have 147 clues for the answer “STRICT”

Clue Answers
Allowing no deviation 1 answer
Not lenient or flexible 1 answer
Driven by rules 1 answer
Far from indulgent 1 answer
Following rules exactly 1 answer
Following the letter of the law 1 answer
Hard to bend 1 answer
Hard; rigid 1 answer
Harsh, severe 1 answer
Holding to the letter 1 answer
Inflexible about rules 1 answer
Inflexible about the rules 1 answer
Like a hard ass 1 answer
Like a stern teacher 1 answer
Like a tough teacher 1 answer
Like parents who have many rules 1 answer
Nitpicky with rules 1 answer
Not allowing for variation 1 answer
Not indulgent 1 answer
Not lax at all 1 answer
Rigid about rules 1 answer
Rigorous, as with rules 1 answer
Rigorously enforced 1 answer
Stern about rules 1 answer
Stern about the rules 1 answer
Uncompromising in discipline 1 answer
Unwilling to give makeup exams, say 1 answer
parent or teacher who is though makes you follow rules 1 answer
parent or teacher who is tough 1 answer
parent or teacher who is tough and makes you follow rules 1 answer
parent or teacher who is tough makes you follow rules 1 answer
parent or teacher who is tough makes you follow the rules 1 answer
parents or teacher who is tough makes you follow rules 1 answer
parent or teacher who is tough make you follow rules 2 answers
Like tough love? 2 answers
Like a schoolmarm 2 answers
Like a taskmaster 2 answers
Like disciplinarians 2 answers
Not at all lenient 2 answers
Unwilling to negotiate 3 answers
Not lenient 3 answers
By-the-book 3 answers
like a martinet 3 answers
Hard-and-fast ___ 3 answers
Not lax 3 answers
Unwilling to bend 4 answers
Far from lenient 4 answers
Mid-Victorian. 4 answers
To the letter 5 answers
Hardly relaxed 5 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
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Sentences with STRICT (5)

While the strict legal right may exist in the government to enforce the exercise of these offices, the attempt to do so would be so irritating, and so nearly impracticable withal, that I deem it better to forego for the time the uses of such offices.
Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln 1979
The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but the lagoon is dangerous for mortals then, and until the evening of which we have now to tell, Wendy had never seen the lagoon by moonlight, less from fear, for of course Peter would have accompanied her, than because she had strict rules about every one being in bed by seven.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Hell heard th’ unsufferable noise, Hell saw Heav’n ruining from Heav’n and would have fled Affrighted; but strict Fate had cast too deep Her dark foundations, and too fast had bound.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The Shepherd at first stood on his guard against him, as against an enemy, and kept a strict watch over his movements.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
State control of economic affairs is unusually tight even for a Communist country because of the small size and homogeneity of the society and the strict one-man rule of Kim.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

Quotes with STRICT (3)

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.
Friedrich Nietzsche
brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come, lean to my wound; burn on, burn on.
Sylvia Plath
I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of your lives is likely to be about, and that is, trying to ensure that you don't wake up at 32 or 35 or 40 tenured to a life that happened to you when you weren't paying strict attention, either because the money was good, or it made your parents proud, or because you were unlucky enough to discover an aptitu…
Richard Russo
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 85 times in crossword archives (1963–2025).