Crossword-Solution: TEETERED 8 letters, 44 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Teetered imp. & p. p. of Teeter

We have 44 clues for the answer “TEETERED”

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Walked in a wobbly way 1 answer
Moved as if well-oiled? 1 answer
Prepared to collapse 1 answer
Rocked on the brink 1 answer
Seesawed 1 answer
Showed imbalance 1 answer
Showed indecision 1 answer
Struggled for balance 1 answer
Swayed like a sot 1 answer
Threatened to fall 1 answer
Threatened to topple 1 answer
Jiggled 1 answer
Walked uncertainly 1 answer
Was a rocker? 1 answer
Was about to collapse 1 answer
Was on the brink 1 answer
Was on the fulcrum 1 answer
Was on the verge of collapse 1 answer
Was rocking 1 answer
Wavered uncertainly. 1 answer
Went back and forth on a decision 1 answer
Wet like a seesaw 1 answer
Felt the strain of brinksmanship 1 answer
Balanced on the brink 1 answer
Balanced precariously 1 answer
Barely balanced 1 answer
Could have gone either way 1 answer
Did not move decisively 1 answer
Displayed instability 1 answer
Enjoyed the playground 1 answer
Evinced instability 1 answer
Almost fell 2 answers
Didn't go steady 2 answers
Swayed back and forth. 2 answers
Was indecisive 3 answers
Moved unsteadily 5 answers
Vacillated 6 answers
Walked unsteadily 7 answers
Staggered 9 answers
BE ON THE BRINK 10 answers
wobbled 10 answers
A FEELING OF DIFFIDENCE AND INDECISION ABOUT DOING SOMETHING 10 answers
Wavered 11 answers
ABOUT TO COLLAPSE 11 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TEETERED (5)

Sophisticated eyes would have seen only a rather stout acrobat clad in pink tights; but Elverson was not sophisticated, and he teetered after the flitting angel, even unto the forbidden portals of the “big top.” He was peeping through the curtains which had fallen behind her, and was getting his first glimpse of the great, sawdust world beyond, when one of the clowns dashed from the dressing tent on his way to the ring.
Polly of the Circus Margaret Mayo 1997
Now, what--do--you--think--of that!” Aggie teetered joyously, the while she inhaled a shockingly large mouthful of smoke.
Within the Law Marvin Dana 1997
This sad and optic-smiting creature teetered out of its den, smiling foolishly and smoothing its gloves for men and angels to see.
Heart of the West O. Henry 1999
The only relief from the flumes was the precipices; and the only relief from the precipices was the flumes, except where the ditch was far under ground, in which case we crossed one horse and rider at a time, on primitive log-bridges that swayed and teetered and threatened to carry away.
The Cruise of the Snark Jack London 2000
Every few steps he would stop to pick up something, then stand for a second bobbing up and down in the funniest way, as if his body was so nicely balanced on his legs that it teetered back and forth like a seesaw.
The Burgess Bird Book for Children Thornton W. Burgess 2002

Quotes with TEETERED (3)

The orchestra had ceased and were now climbing onto their chairs, with their instruments. The floral offerings flew; the coffin teetered. "Catch it!" a voice shouted. They sprang forward, but the coffin crashed heavily to the floor, coming open. The corpse tumbled slowly and sedately out and came to rest with its face in the center of a wreath. "Play something!" the proprietor bawled, waving his arms; "play! Play!
William Faulkner Sanctuary
Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind of no-man's land--too much a woman for boys her own age, too young for fully adult men.
Keith Ablow Murder Suicide
Fifth grade was fourth grade with something wrong. Nothing changed outright. Instead it teetered. You'd pushed futility at Public School 38 so long by then you expected the building itself would be embarrassed and quit. The ones who couldn't read still couldn't, the teachers were teaching the same thing for the fifth time now and refusing to meet your eyes, some kids had been left back twice and were the size of janitors. The place was a cage for growing, nothing else. School…
Jonathan Lethem The Fortress of Solitude
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 40 times in crossword archives (1953–2023).