Crossword-Solution: DECLAIM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Declaim | v. i. | To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week. |
| Declaim | v. i. | To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant. |
| Declaim | v. t. | To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner. |
| Declaim | v. t. | To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DECLAIM | anagram | CAMELID, CLAIMED, DECIMAL, MEDICAL |
We have 29 clues for the answer “DECLAIM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Speak for effect | 1 answer |
| Speak dramatically | 1 answer |
| Orate passionately | 1 answer |
| Make formal speech | 1 answer |
| Give a passionate recital | 1 answer |
| Utter pompously | 2 answers |
| Speak grandly | 2 answers |
| Speak theatrically | 3 answers |
| Inveigh (against) | 3 answers |
| Speechify | 3 answers |
| Speak pompously | 4 answers |
| SPOUT words | 5 answers |
| perorate | 5 answers |
| sermonise | 7 answers |
| Bloviate | 8 answers |
| soapbox | 9 answers |
| inveigh | 17 answers |
| Recite | 25 answers |
| Preach | 26 answers |
| Orate | 26 answers |
| MAKE speech | 28 answers |
| Speak | 35 answers |
| mouth | 49 answers |
| Proclaim | 49 answers |
| Quote | 50 answers |
| Utter | 57 answers |
| Spout | 60 answers |
| Lecture | 61 answers |
| Harangue | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DECLAIM (5)
Roderick had taken a great fancy to the Villa Mondragone, and used to declaim fantastic compliments to it as they strolled in the winter sunshine on the great terrace which looks toward Tivoli and the iridescent Sabine mountains.
And if any flavour of sweetness remained in the nature of Penrod Schofield after the dismal trials of the school-week just past, that problematic, infinitesimal remnant was made pungent acid by the imminence of his destiny to form a prominent feature of the spectacle, and to declaim the loathsome sentiments of a character named upon the programme the Child Sir Lancelot.
Now, after the above statement, no one will venture to say, if the writer should be disposed to bear hard upon Radicals, that he would be influenced by a desire to pay court to princes, or to curry favour with Tories, or from being a blind admirer of the Duke of Wellington; but the writer is not going to declaim against Radicals, that is, real Republicans, or their principles; upon the whole, he is something of an admirer of both.
Whatsoever is harmonically composed delights in harmony, which makes me much distrust the symmetry of those heads which declaim against all church-musick.
Whether it was during his career in this capacity that he first began to declaim against the avarice of the great, we are not informed.
Quotes with DECLAIM (3)
Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea of women having a voice in making laws and administering the Government in the halls of legislation, in Congress, or the British Parliament, and men will declaim at once on the disabilities of maternity in a sneering contemptuous way, as if the office of motherhood was undignified and did not comport with the highest public offices in church and s…
I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1971–2017).