Crossword-Solution: UNBENDING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Unbending | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Unbend |
| Unbending | a. | Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. |
| Unbending | a. | Unyielding in will; not subject to persuasion or influence; inflexible; resolute; -- applied to persons. |
| Unbending | a. | Unyielding in nature; unchangeable; fixed; -- applied to abstract ideas; as, unbending truths. |
| Unbending | a. | Devoted to relaxation or amusement. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “UNBENDING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Relaxing/inflexible | 1 answer |
| unbent | 6 answers |
| INCOMPLIANT | 13 answers |
| Unappeasable | 14 answers |
| Steely -- | 15 answers |
| Taut | 18 answers |
| balky | 23 answers |
| Stony. | 27 answers |
| undaunted | 33 answers |
| Sturdy | 38 answers |
| rugged | 40 answers |
| Tyrannical | 41 answers |
| Bull-headed | 44 answers |
| wooden | 47 answers |
| Iron | 49 answers |
| ungovernable | 54 answers |
| Uncompromising | 54 answers |
| stringent | 57 answers |
| Rigorous | 60 answers |
| BINDING ___ | 72 answers |
| Insurgent | 80 answers |
| Inflexible | 81 answers |
| Disagreeable | 83 answers |
| firm | 92 answers |
| Unyield-ing | 96 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with UNBENDING (5)
Unbending the rigid folds of the parchment cover, I found it to be a commission, under the hand and seal of Governor Shirley, in favour of one Jonathan Pue, as Surveyor of His Majesty’s Customs for the Port of Salem, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
For the first few moments, when he was introduced to young Ottenburg in the parlor of the Everett House, the doctor had been awkward and unbending.
Suzanne looked sad and silent; Sir Andrew fidgeted uneasily with his fork, whilst the Comtesse, encased in the plate-armour of her aristocratic prejudices, sat, rigid and unbending, in her straight-backed chair.
Above all, he had upon his side the unyielding obstinacy of his nation, and that unbending resolution, with which Israelites have been frequently known to submit to the uttermost evils which power and violence can inflict upon them, rather than gratify their oppressors by granting their demands.
Big bushy eyebrows, an awfully deep and solemn voice, a harsh unbending manner, a complete absence in her figure of the undulating lines characteristic of the sex, presented Virtue in this excellent person under its least alluring aspect.
Quotes with UNBENDING (3)
We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.... If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. With such an…
Hard edges make truth and by necessity, truth is unbending. Unlike truth’s absolutism, justice is a qualitative substance; it is not an absolute tenet. Justice must be pliable in order to meet the needs of more than one person or one group. Justice goes against separation; it is a form of human superglue. Justice is what binds us as people. No human is capable of measuring out or dispensing unqualified justice. Justice naturally seeks conciliation and demands compromise.
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be; a son who will know Thee and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge. Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and …
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2016).