Crossword-Solution: STRINGY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stringy | a. | Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root. |
| Stringy | a. | Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “STRINGY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| As a runner bean? | 1 answer |
| Thin and long. | 1 answer |
| Quality of a tough steak. | 1 answer |
| Long, thin, wiry, etc. | 1 answer |
| Like some tough meat | 1 answer |
| Like some texturally unpleasant chicken | 1 answer |
| Like some pot roast | 1 answer |
| Like celery. | 1 answer |
| like string | 2 answers |
| ropy | 3 answers |
| Like mozzarella | 3 answers |
| Long and thin | 5 answers |
| Fibrous | 15 answers |
| filamentous | 17 answers |
| Spindly | 45 answers |
| wiry | 48 answers |
| Drawn | 49 answers |
| Underfed | 51 answers |
| pinched | 52 answers |
| Famished | 58 answers |
| Scrawny | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STRINGY (5)
Right?" His frazzled speech was matched by an annoying habit of sweeping his stringy hair off his face every few words.
Upon the end of his long, stringy neck his little head was cocked to one side, his close-set eyes were half closed, his ears, so expressive was his whole attitude of stealthy eavesdropping, seemed truly to be cocked forward—even his long, yellow, straggly moustache appeared to assume a sly droop.
For it was unquestionably true that down the middle of the entrance guarded by the man in gold lace, actually between the arrogant, stretched legs of that colossus, ran a stringy pattern of grey footprints stamped upon the white snow.
That sky was bluest when I could beat my mates at examination-time, or beat them at a foot-race, or even beat their stringy heads.
Through the stringy barks and saplings, on the rough and broken ground, Down the hillside at a racing pace he went; And he never drew the bridle till he landed safe and sound, At the bottom of that terrible descent.
Quotes with STRINGY (3)
Roger was like the Edgar Allen Poe of stupid people. He'd been making movies about women who were dead or dying, who didn't have much to say, for as long as his stringy hair had been ponytailed into a cliché.
And she [Ada] thought momentarily that she ought to worry about losing her beauty, about having become brown and stringy and rough. And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life.
At that instant the hag's noisy breathing stopped and with it all other sound. Her eyes opened, showing only whites - milky ovals infinitely eerie in the dark root-tangle of her sharp features and stringy hair. The gray tip of her tongue traveled like a large maggot around her lips.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1951–2023).