Crossword-Solution: ACCOSTED
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Accosted | imp. & p. p. | of Accost |
| Accosted | a. | Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “ACCOSTED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Approached and addressed boldly | 1 answer |
| Approached and spoke to. | 1 answer |
| Approached directly | 1 answer |
| Approached rudely | 1 answer |
| Boldly confronted | 1 answer |
| Greeted aggressively | 1 answer |
| Greeted intrusively | 1 answer |
| Statement worked out charges for what solicitor did? | 1 answer |
| waylaid by someone | 1 answer |
| Waylaid | 4 answers |
| Greeted. | 6 answers |
| Confronted | 7 answers |
| Confronted with | 9 answers |
| APPROACH INTRUSIVELY | 10 answers |
| Approached | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ACCOSTED (5)
One man I approached—he was, I perceived, a neighbour of mine, though I did not know his name—and accosted.
When they had come within speech (which was just under the maid’s eyes) the older man bowed and accosted the other with a very pretty manner of politeness.
When Jeff arrived, Tom accosted him; and “led up” warily to opportunities for remark about Becky, but the giddy lad never could see the bait.
Going into the Market Place he accosted in a feigned voice a maiden, the orphan daughter of a noble Polygon, whose affection in former days he had sought in vain; and by a series of deceptions—aided, on the one side, by a string of lucky accidents too long to relate, and, on the other, by an almost inconceivable fatuity and neglect of ordinary precautions on the part of the relations of the bride—he succeeded in consummating the marriage.
Bruff was accosted at the terminus by a small boy, dressed in a jacket and trousers of threadbare black cloth, and personally remarkable in virtue of the extraordinary prominence of his eyes.
Quotes with ACCOSTED (3)
But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.
To be an American is to be accosted by bigotry and enmity for the rights that you were told to appreciate.
After a moment or two a man in brown crimplene looked in at us, did not at all like the look of us and asked us if we were transit passengers. We said we were. He shook his head with infinite weariness and told us that if we were transit passengers then we were supposed to be in the other of the two rooms. We were obviously very crazy and stupid not to have realized this. He stayed there slumped against the door jamb, raising his eyebrows pointedly at us until we eventually g…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1952–2022).