Crossword-Solution: DESIRABLE 9 letters, 86 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Desirable v. t. Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire
or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.

We have 86 clues for the answer “DESIRABLE”

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worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse 1 answer
Pleasing; agreeable. 1 answer
Worth pursuing 2 answers
eximious 3 answers
Worth having 5 answers
Coveted 5 answers
"As You Like It"? 6 answers
alpha plus 6 answers
above par 7 answers
In demand 9 answers
Ravishing 10 answers
" . . . Nothing Like ___" 15 answers
Second to none 15 answers
Endearing 18 answers
Best ever 18 answers
best-ever 18 answers
Slinky 20 answers
silken 22 answers
Worthwhile 27 answers
teasing 28 answers
Enlightened. 31 answers
appetising 33 answers
lovable 36 answers
Fascinating 37 answers
Seductive 37 answers
sensuous 41 answers
Chosen 43 answers
Adorable 44 answers
Bewitching. 46 answers
Scrumptious 46 answers
Appealing 48 answers
"Welcome ___" 50 answers
Sex-y! 51 answers
cognisant 51 answers
Tempting 52 answers
wanted 52 answers
Tasty 52 answers
Alluring 52 answers
sparing 52 answers
tactical 52 answers
thrifty 52 answers
Winsome 54 answers
sexual 55 answers
Amatory 55 answers
Tactful 55 answers
Applicable 55 answers
interesting 55 answers
politic 56 answers
Sumptuous 57 answers
provident 57 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESIRABLE (5)

She heard me thus, and though divinely brought, Yet Innocence and Virgin Modestie, Her vertue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo’d, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retir’d, The more desirable, or to say all, Nature her self, though pure of sinful thought, Wrought in her so, that seeing me, she turn’d; I follow’d her, she what was Honour knew, And with obsequious Majestie approv’d My pleaded reason.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Although the nature of a captive register makes it especially desirable for ships owned in the parent country, just as in the internal register, the ships may also be owned abroad.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
Few of my countrymen can know what it is; nor, as frequent transplantation is perhaps better for the stock, need they consider it desirable to know.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
But sometimes it's desirable to telnet to a different port on a system, where there may be a service available, or to aid in debugging a problem.
Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992
When typesetting book-length manuscripts, on the other hand, scale changes the nature of the task; one quickly runs into WYSIAYG limitations, and the increased power and flexibility of a command-driven formatter like TeX or UNIX's `troff(1)' becomes not just desirable but a necessity.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Quotes with DESIRABLE (3)

The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.
Jeff Foxworthy
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
I was well aware how famously or infamously secretive these old institutions can be, no more than ourselves, a mixture of worry, lost power, perhaps even concern. That the truth may not always be desirable, that one thing leads to another thing, that facts not only lead forward to resolution, but backwards into the shadows, and sometimes into the various little hells we make for each other.
Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1950–2014).