Crossword-Solution: DIMMEST
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Hardest to recall | 1 answer |
| Least brainy | 1 answer |
| Least sharp-witted | 1 answer |
| Least visible. | 1 answer |
| Superlatively stupid | 2 answers |
| Least hopeful | 3 answers |
| Least bright | 3 answers |
| Least sharp | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DIMMEST (5)
Then what was he?—a substance?—or the dimmest of all shadows? He longed to speak out from his own pulpit at the full height of his voice, and tell the people what he was.
Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the north-west died away; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; Bluish mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay; In the dimmest north-east distance, dawned Gibraltar grand and gray; “Here and here did England help me,--how can I help England?”--say, Whoso turns as I, this evening, turn to God to praise and pray, While Jove’s planet rises yonder, silent over Africa.
The dimmest personality in those offices was the girl whose name imaged to everyone little more than a pencil, notebook, and typewriting machine.
But at present she was doing what required only the dimmest light—sponging the aching head that lay on the pillow with fresh vinegar.
There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free; and he had long since discovered that May's only use of the liberty she supposed herself to possess would be to lay it on the altar of her wifely adoration.
Quotes with DIMMEST (3)
Funny thing about the darkness... It can be defeated by the dimmest shimmer of light! So on your darkest days let even a little bit of light in
It was the ring on the left hand that people at the Old Girls' Reunion looked for. Often, in fact nearly always, it was an uninteresting ring, sometimes no more than the plain gold band or the very smallest and dimmest of diamonds. Perhaps the husband was also of this variety, but as he was not seen at this female gathering he could only be imagined, and somehow I do not think we ever imagined the husbands to be quite so uninteresting as they probably were.
Let's grant that the stars are scattered through space, hither and yon. But how hither, and how yon? To the unaided eye the brightest stars are more than a hundred times brighter than the dimmest. So the dim ones are obviously a hundred times farther away from Earth, aren't they? Nope. That simple argument boldly assumes that all stars are intrinsically equally luminous, automatically making the near ones brighter than the far ones. Stars, however, come in a staggering range …
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Appears in: New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1953–2022).