Crossword-Solution: WISER 5 letters, 80 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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WISER anagram SWEIR, SWIRE, WEIRS, WIRES, WRIES

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More learned 1 answer
None the ___ 1 answer
More smart-alecky 1 answer
More sage 1 answer
More sagacious 1 answer
More politic 1 answer
More owlish? 1 answer
More likely to mouth off 1 answer
More likely to be fresh 1 answer
More like Solomon 1 answer
Not as foolish 1 answer
More knowing 1 answer
More erudite 1 answer
More discreet 1 answer
More Solomonlike 1 answer
More Solomonic 1 answer
Making better judgements 1 answer
Less stupid 1 answer
Less naive 1 answer
Less likely to be taken for a ride 1 answer
Older, presumably 1 answer
What you get as you grow older, it's said 1 answer
What you get as you grow older 1 answer
What "Time" is, to Black Crowes 1 answer
Tempered by experience 1 answer
Showing better judgment, perhaps 1 answer
Sager 1 answer
Sadder partner 1 answer
Partner of sadder 1 answer
Partner of older 1 answer
Knowing better now 1 answer
Older's partner 1 answer
Older partner, hopefully 1 answer
Older partner 1 answer
Older mate? 1 answer
Older companion? 1 answer
Older but __ 1 answer
Older and ___ 1 answer
Of superior sagacity. 1 answer
Not so likely to be fooled again 1 answer
Knowing better 1 answer
"A sadder and a ___ man." 1 answer
"Sadder but ___." 1 answer
Better for the experience 1 answer
Better informed 1 answer
Black Crowes "___ Time" 1 answer
Buffalo Tom song about being smarter? 1 answer
Cannier 1 answer
Harder to fool 1 answer
Having an edge in experience 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WISER (5)

They could hear Nana barking, and John whimpered, “It is because he is chaining her up in the yard,” but Wendy was wiser.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Alexandra had never heard Marie speak so frankly about her husband before, and she felt that it was wiser not to encourage her.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but—_whack_—his palm came on his head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: “You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.” The Fox and the Stork At one time the Fox and the Stork were on visiting terms and seemed very good friends.
The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992
The wiser effort would have been to diffuse thought and imagination through the opaque substance of today, and thus to make it a bright transparency; to spiritualise the burden that began to weigh so heavily; to seek, resolutely, the true and indestructible value that lay hidden in the petty and wearisome incidents, and ordinary characters with which I was now conversant.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Such was the formidable rival with whom Ichabod Crane had to contend, and, considering all things, a stouter man than he would have shrunk from the competition, and a wiser man would have despaired.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992

Quotes with WISER (3)

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love-I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A…
Edgar Allan Poe
And when she at last came out, her eyes were dry. Her parents stared up from their silent breakfast at her. They both started to rise but she put a hand out, stopped them. ‘I can care for myself, please,’ and she set about getting some food. They watched her closely. In point of fact, she had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, and an ocean sadder. This one understood…
William Goldman The Princess Bride
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 139 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).