Crossword-Solution: EDGINESS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| EDGINESS | anagram | SSENIGDE |
We have 20 clues for the answer “EDGINESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable | 1 answer |
| What a pacer may be experiencing | 1 answer |
| Tendency to push the envelope | 1 answer |
| Quality that's a bit unsettling | 1 answer |
| Quality of a comic who may go over the line | 1 answer |
| Envelope-pushing quality | 1 answer |
| Disquitetude | 1 answer |
| Avant-garde quality | 2 answers |
| State of nervous tension | 2 answers |
| Tense feeling | 2 answers |
| Sign of nerves | 3 answers |
| nervous tension | 19 answers |
| Nerves | 25 answers |
| Jitters | 30 answers |
| mental strain | 33 answers |
| Nervousness | 38 answers |
| solicitude | 42 answers |
| disquietude | 46 answers |
| Anxiety | 66 answers |
| Tension | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EDGINESS (2)
Those most interesting English critics of the generation slightly anterior to Macaulay,--Hazlitt, Lamb, De Quincey, Leigh Hunt,--were fully his equals in precision, and yet they knew how to be clear, acute, and definite, without that edginess and inelasticity which is so conspicuous in Macaulay's criticisms, alike in their matter and their form.
Thet's all I've got ther power ter tell ye." "Hed this man Maggard ever been over hyar afore? Did he know ther Harpers when he come?" Hump Doane still shot out his questions in an inquisitorial manner but Bas met its peremptory edginess with urbanity, though his face was haggard with a night of sleeplessness and fatigue.
Quotes with EDGINESS (3)
At the edge you will always remember me, at the edge you will last be remembered, where sanity and insanity come together, for the time, then separates. Like leaves on October trees, that color the world, but for a moment, then leave. At the edge, where life losses its edginess, and thoughts we will become one, someday. At the edge the sun drops, the ring falls, and senses of raindrops climb upwards to the gray sky.
I am not sure if we are numbed to the reality of rape, but here's the sad irony. While the word rape can add an edginess to your language, talking about actual rape is taboo. I didn't know this until one of my friends was raped. Then I knew this, because I didn't want to tell anyone. If she were mugged, I would have told everyone and raged.
What you have now then is the marketing of racialized identities as tools for consumption. And certain racialized bodies and images are associated with hipness, coolness, edginess. So all kinds of youth all over the world are appropriating that style as a way of, sort of, countering authority, stating their rebelliousness, and wanting to be seen as significant.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1982–2024).