Crossword-Solution: WALLFLOWER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wallflower | n. | A perennial, cruciferous plant (Cheiranthus Cheiri), with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls. |
| Wallflower | n. | A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “WALLFLOWER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| No siren, she. | 1 answer |
| Shy plant? | 1 answer |
| Shy person at a social event | 1 answer |
| Shy partygoer | 1 answer |
| Shy one at a dance | 1 answer |
| Shy nondancer at a dance | 1 answer |
| Shy girl at a dance | 1 answer |
| Shrinking violet | 1 answer |
| She's not the belle of the ball | 1 answer |
| Party animal's antithesis | 1 answer |
| One uncomfortable at the dance | 1 answer |
| Not the cynosure, at a dance. | 1 answer |
| Not the belle of the ball. | 1 answer |
| Nonmixer at a mixer | 1 answer |
| Non-dancer at the dance | 1 answer |
| Indoor waterfall? | 1 answer |
| Dance loner | 1 answer |
| Cousin of a shrinking violet? | 1 answer |
| CHEIRANTHUS | 1 answer |
| TACITURN person (fig.) | 2 answers |
| BEAUTY (ant.) | 5 answers |
| BASHFUL person | 5 answers |
| Garden favorite | 5 answers |
| Shy person? | 6 answers |
| EXCLUDED person | 7 answers |
| Timid person | 8 answers |
| CREATURE SHY | 10 answers |
| COLD house plant | 14 answers |
| cruciferous plant | 22 answers |
| GREENHOUSE plant | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WALLFLOWER (5)
Soon after I must have passed within a little distance of a bush of wallflower, for the scent of it came over me with that impression of reality which characterises scents in darkness.
Now when the spring begins, you must lay in your flowers: how do you say about a potted hawthorn? Would it bloom? Wallflower is a choice pot-herb; lily-of-the-valley, too, and carnation, and Indian cress trailed about the window, is not only beautiful by colour, but the leaves are good to eat.
The cake had a wreath of white lilac round it, and in the middle was something that looked like a pattern all done with single blooms of lilac or wallflower or laburnum.
Beneath, the legend: “Fable of the Wallflower and the Sour Grapes.” Fascinated and horrified, Denis pored over the drawing.
What he saw from his perch was a garden laid out in neat plots between grassy walks edged with double daisies, red, white and pink, or bordered with sweet herbs, or with lavender and wallflower; and here and there were cordons of fruit-trees, apple, plum and cherry, and in a sunny corner a clump of flowering currant heavy with humming bees; and against the inner walls flat pear-trees stretched their long straight lines, like music-staves whereon a lovely melody was written in notes of snow.
Quotes with WALLFLOWER (3)
Free will is the cutting edge of Creation, don’t you see? The word spontaneity derives from the Latin sponte, meaning ‘of one’s free will.’ Spontaneity is the impulse, the purest expression of freedom, and the impulse wants to do whatever it wants to do. But you are afraid of what others think, others who are just as afraid of what you think, and so you pussyfoot along the perimeter of the free-will zone, wilting like a wallflower.
Lotari turned back to the dance floor in time to see Stitch spin Carah before sweeping her into a low dip. Stitch grinned at Jerin and gave him a wink. Jerin's fist clenched. His face went from red to almost purple. Lotari thought he might need to intervene before this got out of hand and Jerin pulled out the sword. He glanced at Alyra. The bird was gone. The girl sat wide-eyed, her hands fumbling with something beneath the table. "Ooh, oh, my." The palomino stumbled. Lotari …
Lust, desire and passion. They can turn a wallflower into a sexual predator and a rational person into a raving lunatic.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1958–2023).