Crossword-Solution: WISHFUL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wishful | a. | Having desire, or ardent desire; longing. |
| Wishful | a. | Showing desire; as, wishful eyes. |
| Wishful | a. | Desirable; exciting wishes. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “WISHFUL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Type of thinking | 1 answer |
| Kind of thinking | 4 answers |
| Like some thinking | 4 answers |
| Wistful | 9 answers |
| Wishing ___ | 9 answers |
| Nostalgic | 14 answers |
| Aspiring | 16 answers |
| desirous | 35 answers |
| Illogical | 52 answers |
| Ambitious. | 55 answers |
| hopeful | 62 answers |
| Longing | 67 answers |
| Thinking ... | 75 answers |
| Yearning | 75 answers |
| Eager | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WISHFUL (5)
But once more the Elder spoke and said: "Is any man now wishful to speak?" None answered till a big and burly man rose up and said: "Nay, Tall Thomas, thou hast said and done all that need was, and I deem that time presses; wherefore my mind is that we now break up this mote, and that after we have eaten a morsel we get ourselves into due array and take to the road.
Well, both Sir Wishful and Sir Percival retired to lick their wounds and lament the fate of men in this whole romantic con game, and Sir Wishful soon enough decided that he liked the taste of trout just about as well as the taste of women's lips, so he grabbed his bait and tackle and headed for the river.
Wherever a fresco peels and drops, Wherever an outline weakens and wanes Till the latest life in the painting stops, Stands One whom each fainter pulse-tick pains: One, wishful each scrap should clutch the brick, Each tinge not wholly escape the plaster, --A lion who dies of an ass’s kick, The wronged great soul of an ancient Master.
But for the present I remain as I am, celibate, and not wishful to be otherwise; and so in the meantime I would hear the continuance of your history.” “It is one long story of success.
When first under fire an' you're wishful to duck, Don't look nor take 'eed at the man that is struck, Be thankful you're livin', and trust to your luck And march to your front like a soldier.
Quotes with WISHFUL (3)
Of course, I quiet agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable discomfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in the dismay and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is one thing you cannot get looking for it. If you look for the truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or t…
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentim…
In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth -- only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1980–2017).