Crossword-Solution: DIGRESSIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Digressive | a. | Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “DIGRESSIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | 1 answer |
| Tending to ramble | 2 answers |
| expatiating | 3 answers |
| Discursive | 24 answers |
| ALL over the place | 40 answers |
| disjointed | 58 answers |
| spreading | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DIGRESSIVE (5)
That remark seems somewhat digressive.” “It means that I would rather have your room than your company.” “And I would rather have curses from you than kisses from any other woman; so I’ll stay here.” Bathsheba was absolutely speechless.
These are parenthetical and digressive, and, unless your audience is of superior intelligence, will confuse them.
But to explain why Mr Carker reined in his horse quickly, and what he looked at in no small surprise, a few digressive words are necessary.
And here, though at the risk of being thought digressive, the writer cannot forbear saying that the darkest and at one time the comeliest of all the _Caumlies_, a celebrated fortune-teller, and an old friend of his, lately expired in a certain old town, after attaining an age which was something wonderful.
The wild diffusion of the sentiments and the digressive sallies of imagination would have been compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme.
Quotes with DIGRESSIVE (3)
This is not the "relativism of truth" presented by journalistic takes on postmodernism. Rather, the ironist's cage is a state of irony by way of powerlessness and inactivity: In a world where terrorism makes cultural relativism harder and harder to defend against its critics, marauding international corporations follow fair-trade practices, increasing right-wing demagoguery and violence can't be answered in kind, and the first black U.S. president turns out to lean right of c…
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1977).