Crossword-Solution: GUESSWORK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Guesswork | n. | Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “GUESSWORK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| process or results of guessing | 1 answer |
| Pure conjecture | 1 answer |
| PROCEDURE based on guessing | 1 answer |
| Random shot | 2 answers |
| Open-___ question | 3 answers |
| Empiricism | 4 answers |
| Rule of thumb? | 5 answers |
| suspended judgment | 6 answers |
| First steps | 6 answers |
| suspended judgement | 10 answers |
| shrewd idea | 11 answers |
| leap in the dark | 13 answers |
| approximation | 14 answers |
| fluidity | 14 answers |
| precariousness | 16 answers |
| dubiety | 18 answers |
| "...___ speculation..." | 23 answers |
| shot in the dark | 23 answers |
| "Feeler" | 26 answers |
| Intuition | 31 answers |
| hunch | 35 answers |
| estimation | 39 answers |
| guessing | 40 answers |
| hypothesis | 41 answers |
| Conjecture | 42 answers |
| Touch and go? | 43 answers |
| ideality | 48 answers |
| Experiment | 53 answers |
| __ guess | 55 answers |
| Topic | 56 answers |
| Ambiguity ___ | 57 answers |
| Indecision | 57 answers |
| Essay | 76 answers |
| Idea | 92 answers |
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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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GUESSWORK (5)
The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.
Then, being set down again, the dying creatures would totter gropingly about, with dragging wings, find each other, strike a guesswork blow or two, and fall exhausted once more.
Maybe it was a chance to gossip about Laddie, for he hadn't left them a thing to guess at, and mother says the reason gossip is so dreadful is because it is always GUESSWORK.
His theory was that the simplest way is always the best way and so he never befogged the main issue with any elaborate system of deductive reasoning based on guesswork.
Michael, hurriedly, fearful lest his revelation should be forestalled, even in guesswork; “quite an ideal choice, the very wife for a man who means to make his mark in politics.
Quotes with GUESSWORK (3)
We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.
But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.""You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha." I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.
I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surprise me. A mortal man's strength had its limits. He spent himself and slept. He could be a good lover, but even his best skills were only guesswork - for every caress that sent a woman's head into the clouds, he might try ten that brought her back to earth.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1971–2013).