Crossword-Solution: DEFYING 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Defying p. pr. & vb. n. of Defy

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"___ Gravity" ("Wicked" song) 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEFYING (5)

Almost in the same breath they cried, “Peter would look at them through his legs.” And then, “Let us do what Peter would do.” It is quite the most successful way of defying wolves, and as one boy they bent and looked through their legs.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Poor, miserable man! what right had infirmity like his to burden itself with crime? Crime is for the iron-nerved, who have their choice either to endure it, or, if it press too hard, to exert their fierce and savage strength for a good purpose, and fling it off at once! This feeble and most sensitive of spirits could do neither, yet continually did one thing or another, which intertwined, in the same inextricable knot, the agony of heaven-defying guilt and vain repentance.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
The Mountain belongs to this township, and it's North Dormer's fault if there's a gang of thieves and outlaws living over there, in sight of us, defying the laws of their country.
Summer Edith Wharton 2006
This lady, after standing a moment as if defying the twain to a further contest, went out, slamming the door violently after her.
Paul Prescott's Charge Horatio Alger 2006
Nous les aurons! The jesting, unresting piou-piou; The cheering, unfearing piou-piou; The keep-your-head-level and fight-like-the-devil; The dying, defying piou-piou.
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man Robert W. Service 1995

Quotes with DEFYING (3)

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp
Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.
Robert Jordan Towers of Midnight
... It's who you are. You're like a hummingbird, defying reality, a beautiful mystery, spreading your sweetness to all the needy flowers. Well, I'm no pretty garden blossom and I don't need your brand of sugar.
Karin Kallmaker The Kiss That Counted
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, Universal, WSJ.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1982–2024).