Crossword-Solution: THINNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Thinness | n. | The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word). |
We have 15 clues for the answer “THINNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Beanpole's claim to fame | 1 answer |
| Exility. | 1 answer |
| a consistency of low viscosity | 1 answer |
| tenuity | 4 answers |
| Transparency | 15 answers |
| rareness | 18 answers |
| uncommonness | 18 answers |
| scantiness | 22 answers |
| Nonesuch | 24 answers |
| Rarity | 26 answers |
| Tenuous | 26 answers |
| insubstantiality | 35 answers |
| Occasion | 66 answers |
| deficit | 70 answers |
| Oddity | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with THINNESS (5)
The sensation of her warm body in his embrace, the feeling of her smooth, round arm, through the thinness of her sleeve, pressing against his cheek, thrilled Annixter with a delight such as he had never known.
They dined late, and facing her across the table, with its low lights and flowers, he felt an extraordinary pleasure in seeing her again in evening dress, and in letting his eyes dwell on the proud shy set of her head, the way her dark hair clasped it, and the girlish thinness of her neck above the slight swell of the breast.
Fanny Brandeis had once been through the Winnebago Paper Company's mill and she had watched, fascinated, while a pair of soiled and greasy old blue overalls were dusted and cleaned, and put through this acid vat, and that acid tub, growing whiter and more pulpy with each process until it was fed into a great crushing roller that pressed the moisture out of it, flattened it to the proper thinness and spewed it out at last, miraculously, in the form of rolls of crisp, white paper.
The men don't care much for thinness." "Not the clodhoppers and roustabouts that come to see us," retorted Mabel.
The youth could see that the soles of his shoes had been worn to the thinness of writing paper, and from a great rent in one the dead foot projected piteously.
Quotes with THINNESS (3)
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to aery thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely …
Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies.
She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say, 'I am conquered by the era, like all my breed. I am dying, but I despise you,' and - devil take me! - plebeian as I am, and though it is not very philosophical , I cannot help finding that beautiful.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1942–1999).