Crossword-Solution: COLLOQUIAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Colloquial | a. | Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “COLLOQUIAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Informal, as speech. | 1 answer |
| Like ordinary talk | 1 answer |
| dialectical | 8 answers |
| idiomatic | 11 answers |
| Vernacular | 22 answers |
| Patois | 27 answers |
| Unpretentious | 50 answers |
| informal | 64 answers |
| Unceremonious | 72 answers |
| Usual | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COLLOQUIAL (5)
For similar reasons, English-speaking hackers almost never use double negatives, even if they live in a region where colloquial usage allows them.
Kronborg spoke Swedish to her own sisters and to her sister-in-law Tillie, and colloquial English to her neighbors.
They sat on the terrace and talked in the mingled starlight and lamplight, and they strolled in the deep green forests and wound along the side of the gentle Baden hills, under the influence of colloquial tendencies.
Lord Lambeth had a theory, which it might be interesting to trace to its origin, that it would be not only agreeable, but easily possible, to enter into relations with one of these young ladies; and his companion (as he had done a couple of days before) found occasion to check the young nobleman’s colloquial impulses.
Both of is used before pronouns in the objective case; as, both of us, them, whom, etc.; but before substantives its used is colloquial, both (without of) being the preferred form; as, both the brothers.
Quotes with COLLOQUIAL (3)
There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been.
... on a number of occasions this book has made reference to magic, and each time you've shaken your head, muttering such criticisms as "What does he mean by 'magic' anyhow? It's embarrassing to find a grown man talking about magic in such a manner. How can anybody take him seriously?" Or, as slightly more gracious readers have objected, "Doesn't the author realize that one can't write about magic? One can create it but not discuss it. It's much too gossamer for that. Magic c…
The Artificial’s speech pattern was an idiosyncratic mix of awkward and colloquial. It was unexpectedly endearing. “I just have good instincts. Mostly I love being in space.” But you are not ‘in’ space. You are in your starship and your starship is in space. It is not so different than being on a planet. “Oh, Valkyrie, you have no idea.” Tell me then.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1965–1975).