Crossword-Solution: DRAWBACK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Drawback | n. | A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature. |
| Drawback | n. | Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied. |
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| DRAWBACK | anagram | BACKWARD |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MCEEZA
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eruption
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Sentences with DRAWBACK (5)
God didn’t provide ’em with victuals as well as drink, and ’twas a drawback I couldn’t get over at all.” “Well, ’tis a curious place, to say the least,” observed Moon; “and it must be a curious people that live therein.” “Miss Everdene and the soldier were walking about together, you say?” said Gabriel, returning to the group.
One great drawback to Simplified Spelling is, that in print a simplified word looks so like the very nation! and when you bunch a whole squadron of the Simplified together the spectacle is very nearly unendurable.
JIM STANDING SIEGE The next few meals was pretty sandy, but that don’t make no difference when you are hungry; and when you ain’t it ain’t no satisfaction to eat, anyway, and so a little grit in the meat ain’t no particular drawback, as far as I can see.
Stryver, a man of little more than thirty, but looking twenty years older than he was, stout, loud, red, bluff, and free from any drawback of delicacy, had a pushing way of shouldering himself (morally and physically) into companies and conversations, that argued well for his shouldering his way up in life.
This was a pleasant, companionable little man, with the drawback, however, I must own, of being too fond, in season and out of season, of his joke, and of his plunging in rather a headlong manner into talk with strangers, without waiting to feel his way first.
Quotes with DRAWBACK (3)
Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!
The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.
[Richard Bedford Bennett] was the richest Prime Minister and the only millionaire to hold office before Pierre Trudeau. His money obviously colored his thinking -- colored it true blue -- but he did not consider it a political drawback. No leader, he said, could serve the public properly if he was constantly looking over his shoulder at the shadow of debts. This theory is now widely accepted in the United States where it has become practically impossible for a non-millionaire…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1965–2018).