Crossword-Solution: FOILING 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Foiling p. pr. & vb. n. of Foil
Foiling n. A foil.
Foiling n. The track of game (as deer) in the grass.

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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
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greedy person
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Sentences with FOILING (5)

Despite their very natural excitement, caused by this peril and its foiling, Professor Featherwit retained nearly all his customary coolness and presence of mind.
The Lost City Joseph E. Badger, Jr. 1997
Then I asked her full and straight, and looking at her in such a manner that she could not look away, without appearing vanquished by feelings of her own--which thing was very vile of me; but all men are so selfish,-- 'Dear cousin, tell me, once for all, what is your advice to me?' 'My advice to you,' she answered bravely, with her dark eyes full of pride, and instead of flinching, foiling me,--'is to do what every man must do, if he would win fair maiden.
Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor R. D. Blackmore 2006
Curfew, would seem your conqueror’s decree To women likewise: and we have no choice Save darkness or rebellion, we! XXXIII —A plain safe intermediate way is cleft By reason foiling passion: you that rave Of mad alternatives to right and left Echo the tempter, madam: and ’tis due Unto your sex to shun it as the grave, This later apple offered you.
Poems, Volume 2 [of 3] George Meredith 2015
Hector the son of Priam rages with intolerable fury, and has already done great mischief.” Minerva answered, “Would, indeed, this fellow might die in his own land, and fall by the hands of the Achaeans; but my father Jove is mad with spleen, ever foiling me, ever headstrong and unjust.
The Iliad Homer 1999
Reggie Byng passed these minutes, in the intervals of eluding carts and foiling the apparently suicidal intentions of some stray fowls, in jerky conversation on the subject of his iron-shots, with which he expressed a deep satisfaction.
A Damsel in Distress P. G. Wodehouse 2000

Quotes with FOILING (3)

Love is the great intangible. In our nightmares, we can create beasts out of pure emotion. Hate stalks the streets with dripping fangs, fear flies down narrow alleyways on leather wings, and jealousy spins sticky webs across the sky. In daydreams, we can maneuver with poise, foiling an opponent, scoring high on fields of glory while crowds cheer, cutting fast to the heart of an adventure. But what dream state is love? Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and forti…
Diane Ackerman A Natural History of Love
I could be accused of glamourising crime, the favorite question on all journalists’ lips whenever they ask about anyone writing about such things. The answer to that must be an emphatic ‘Yes’. We’ve come to expect our icons of the criminal world to be larger than life, better than anyone else at foiling the final capture scene. We all love a good thriller ....
Stephen Richards Crash n Carry: The True Story of Britain's Ramraiders
The America's Cup World Series was created in 2011, with an eye toward conjuring more off-cycle interest and marketing opportunities. It coincided with the ascent of foiling catamarans, a type of boat that goes faster and looks almost Photoshopped, the way it practically floats in air when it races.
Mary Pilon
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (1977).