Crossword-Solution: DUMBS
We have 4 clues for the answer “DUMBS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Makes more basic, with "down" | 1 answer |
| ___ down (makes much simpler) | 1 answer |
| ___ down (makes simpler) | 1 answer |
| ___ down (oversimplifies) | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DUMBS (2)
She sings like one immortal, and she dances As goddess-like to her admired lays; Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her nee’le composes Nature’s own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry, That even her art sisters the natural roses; Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry: That pupils lacks she none of noble race, Who pour their bounty on her; and her gain She gives the cursed bawd.
This seemed piteous to us, and made us reflect how happy are _our_ blinds, to say nothing of our deafs and dumbs.
Quotes with DUMBS (2)
If one more person tells me that “all gender is performance,” I think I am going to strangle them. Perhaps most annoying about that sound-bite is the somewhat snooty “I-took-a-gender-studies-class-and-youdidn’t” sort of way in which it is most often recited, a magnificent irony given the way that phrase dumbs down gender. It is a crass oversimplification, as ridiculous as saying all gender is genitals, all gender is chromosomes, or all gender is socialization. In reality, gen…
When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, Universal, WP.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2014–2023).