Crossword-Solution: DISRUPTIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Disruptive | a. | Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “DISRUPTIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| causing disruption | 1 answer |
| Tepid virus, strangely unsettling (10) | 1 answer |
| Tending to break up. | 1 answer |
| unsupported | 24 answers |
| Cluttered | 30 answers |
| Tousled. | 32 answers |
| Rumpled | 35 answers |
| unjustified | 37 answers |
| Dauntless | 49 answers |
| uncombed | 52 answers |
| untenable | 52 answers |
| Baseless | 53 answers |
| Moronic | 57 answers |
| uproarious | 57 answers |
| jumbled | 59 answers |
| Irrational | 65 answers |
| slapdash | 70 answers |
| Aggressive | 73 answers |
| Frenzied | 75 answers |
| witless | 79 answers |
| Agitated | 95 answers |
| Confused | 105 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
CELRTOE
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with DISRUPTIVE (5)
Indeed, the use of `bug' to mean an industrial defect was already established in Thomas Edison's time, and `bug' in the sense of an disruptive event goes back to Shakespeare! In the first edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary one meaning of `bug' is "A frightful object; a walking spectre"; this is traced to `bugbear', a Welsh term for a variety of mythological monster which (to complete the circle) has recently been reintroduced into the popular lexicon through fantasy role-playing games.
Later came the magnificent work of Hertz identifying the phenomena as "electromagnetic waves" in the ether, and developing a new world of theory and science based upon them and their production by disruptive discharges.
Broadly speaking, these oscillations arise from disruptive discharges of an induction coil, or other form of oscillator, across an air-gap, and their character is controlled by the manipulation of a special type of circuit-breaking key, by means of which long and short discharges are produced.
These two forces have therefore been disruptive to the last degree; they mark the culmination of the Self-conscious Age--a culmination in War, Greed, Materialism, and the general principle of Devil-take-the-hindmost--and the clearing of the ground for the new order which is to come.
Actually, use of `bug' in the general sense of a disruptive event goes back to Shakespeare! (Henry VI, part III - Act V, Scene II: King Edward: "So, lie thou there.
Quotes with DISRUPTIVE (3)
For a long while I have believed — this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in a fourth function of outsideness — that in every generation there are a few souls, call them lucky or cursed, who are simply born not belonging, who come into the world semi-detached, if you like, without strong affiliation to family or location or nation or race; that there may even be millions, billions of such souls, as many non-belongers as belongers, perhaps; that, in sum,…
What makes awe such a powerful call to love is that it’s disruptive. It sneaks up on us. It doesn’t ask our permission to wow us; it just does. Awe can arise from a single glance, a sound, a gesture.
Society has become well versed in the methods necessary to weaken the radicalism of the Gospel by reducing Christianity to what is viewed as reasonable by the logic of the market and by a culture committed to a largely post-Christian, consumerist vision of human life. Thus the disruptive character of Christianity is silenced and Christian spirituality is repackaged as a soothing therapeutic exercise that serves the needs of a culture committed above all else to the enjoyment of consumer activities.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1956–2004).