Crossword-Solution: VERVE 5 letters, 76 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Verve n. Excitement of imagination such as animates a poet, artist,
or musician, in composing or performing; rapture; enthusiasm; spirit;
energy.

We have 76 clues for the answer “VERVE”

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enthusiasm or liveliness 1 answer
Vitality, sparkle 1 answer
Vigour and vitality 1 answer
Spirited zest 1 answer
Label for Zappa and the Velvet Underground 1 answer
Jazz label for Basie and Ellington 1 answer
Exuberance or brio 1 answer
Ella Fitzgerald record label 1 answer
Enthusiastic energy or zest 1 answer
"The Freshmen" band ___ Pipe 1 answer
"Spice of life" 2 answers
Energetic quality 3 answers
Dynamic quality 3 answers
Basie, William 'Count' instrument 10 answers
A BREEZY LIVELINESS 11 answers
CHARACTERIZED BY LIVELINESS AND LIGHTHEARTEDNESS 11 answers
Élan 11 answers
Pizazz 19 answers
Get up and go 20 answers
Panache 20 answers
Get-up-and-go 20 answers
Pizzazz 24 answers
Vim 26 answers
INMOST being 29 answers
INNERMOST being 29 answers
Vigor 30 answers
Ginger 34 answers
Pep 34 answers
Piquancy 35 answers
Brio 35 answers
Sparkle 36 answers
Elan 38 answers
Ardor 38 answers
Keenness 41 answers
Oomph 42 answers
shortness 43 answers
abruptness 44 answers
terseness 45 answers
forthrightness 46 answers
brevity 46 answers
Gusto 49 answers
Openness 51 answers
frankness 53 answers
perturbation 53 answers
ingenuousness 56 answers
vivaciousness 57 answers
expeditiousness 58 answers
Precipitation 59 answers
hastiness 59 answers
Celerity 61 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VERVE (5)

You told me of that girl of yours, that blossom of old Spain, All glamour, grace and witchery, all passion, verve and glow.
Rhymes of a Rolling Stone Robert W. Service 1995
His hands were strong and elegant; his experience of life evidently varied; his speech full of pith and verve; his manners forward, but perfectly presentable.
Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
Chicago he approved for a certain verve that transcended its loud accent—however, it was a Yale town, and as the Yale Glee Club was expected in a week the Triangle received only divided homage.
This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald 2008
There is a combination of half-indolent elegance and sensuous langour, with a fire, a verve, a nobility, that puts him at the very head of masculine beauty.
Mae Madden Mary Murdoch Mason 2006
Really, if what I am told in my letters is true, there is some chance for them at last.” And he would explain with railing verve what Don Vincente Ribiera stood for--a mournful little man oppressed by his own good intentions, the significance of battles won, who Montero was (_un grotesque vaniteux et feroce_), and the manner of the new loan connected with railway development, and the colonization of vast tracts of land in one great financial scheme.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad 2006

Quotes with VERVE (3)

You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.
Dean Koontz Odd Thomas
Goya’s savage verve, his harsh, brutal genius, captivated Des Esseintes. On the other hand, the universal admiration his works had won rather put him off, and for years he had refrained from framing them, for fear that if he hung them up, the first idiot who saw them would might feel obliged to dishonour them with a few inanities and go into stereotyped ecstasies over them.
Joris-Karl Huysmans Against Nature
Emblematic of this era was the prolific Viennese surgeon Theodor Billroth. Born in 1821, Billroth studied music and surgery with almost equal verve. (The professions still often go hand in hand. Both push manual skill to its limit; both mature with practice and age; both depend on immediacy, precision, and opposable thumbs.)
Siddhartha Mukherjee The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 53 times in crossword archives (1975–2024).