Crossword-Solution: GENERIS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GENERIS | anagram | ISGREEN |
We have 3 clues for the answer “GENERIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Sui ___ | 1 answer |
| Sui ___ (unique) | 1 answer |
| alieni ___ | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GENERIS (5)
You have been reading Gibbon--what do you think of him?' 'I think him a very wonderful writer.' 'He is a wonderful writer--one _sui generis_--uniting the perspicuity of the English--for we are perspicuous--with the cool dispassionate reasoning of the Germans.
Persuade the Governor to buy my cargo and they will look upon me as an amicus humani generis to whom common rules do not apply.
But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be _sui generis_ and unique.
Under the figure of the man is this inscription:-- “ANTONIUS FORSTER, generis generosa propago, Cumnerae Dominus, Bercheriensis erat.
These violent, eccentric, singular signs--sui generis--are what make the harlot, the robber, the murderer, the ticket-of-leave man, so easily recognizable by their foes, the spy and the police, to whom they are as game to the sportsman: they have a gait, a manner, a complexion, a look, a color, a smell--in short, infallible marks about them.
Quotes with GENERIS (3)
The issue which faced the jury was this: was Sutcliffe a clever criminal, aware of what he was doing and determined to avoid capture? ... In a sense, it was the wrong question. The battle that was fought out in court - the mad/bad dichotomy - both substitutes for and obscures the real dilemma raised by the Yorkshire Ripper case: is Sutcliffe a one-off, su generis as I have heard one psychiatrist describe him, someone who stands outside our culture and has no relation to it? T…
We cannot replicate other people’s lives. We must each institute and broker a personalized meaning to our exclusive existence. We must each serve as our own Zen master, awaken to our inviolate personal truth, and strive to fulfill our sui generis (unique) nature.
Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1973–2021).