Crossword-Solution: GUMPTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gumption | n. | Capacity; shrewdness; common sense. |
| Gumption | n. | The art of preparing colors. |
| Gumption | n. | Megilp. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “GUMPTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Resourceful quality | 1 answer |
| Wisdom – moxie | 1 answer |
| Enterprise: Colloq. | 2 answers |
| practical sense | 6 answers |
| Bright idea | 7 answers |
| Horse sense? | 8 answers |
| Wits | 9 answers |
| Resource | 9 answers |
| Nous | 10 answers |
| Common-sense | 13 answers |
| aggressiveness | 14 answers |
| forcefulness | 16 answers |
| initiative | 25 answers |
| forethought | 31 answers |
| Sense | 45 answers |
| boldness | 46 answers |
| mother wit | 46 answers |
| Guts | 48 answers |
| grey matter | 56 answers |
| Common sense? | 60 answers |
| Gray matter? | 60 answers |
| Ambition | 65 answers |
| good sense | 69 answers |
| Inspiration | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GUMPTION (5)
What does I do? Does I shin aroun’ mongs’ de neighbors en fine out which un you de bill _do_ b’long to, en han’ it over to de right one, all safe en soun’, de way dat anybody dat had any gumption would? No; I take en whack de bill in _two_, en give half un it to you, en de yuther half to de yuther woman.
How many nerds would have the gumption to play in that league? They walked to the outer edge of Old Amsterdam, on the Singel- gracht at the Leidseplein.
Nobody with more gumption than a grasshopper could go and sit and listen.” And to Miriam he said, with much scorn of Annie and the others: “I suppose they’re at the ‘Coons’.” It was queer to see Miriam singing coon songs.
They said that I was an extremely neat thrower, and that I seemed to have plenty of gumption for the thing, and quite enough constitutional laziness.
Hadn’t he none the less known at the very time—known it stupidly and without reaction—that the boy was accepting something? He was modestly benevolent, the boy—that was at least what he had been capable of the superiority of making out his chance to be; and one had one’s self literally not had the gumption to get in ahead of him.
Quotes with GUMPTION (3)
Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do?
The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles. Mother took Buster and Helen to high ground to pray, but I stayed behind with Apache and Lupe. We barricaded the door with the rug and started bailing water out the window. Mother came back and begged us to go pray with her on the hilltop. "To heck with praying!" I shouted. "Bail, dammit, bail!" Mom look mortified. I could tell she thought I'd probably doomed us all with my blasph…
During the Society's early years, no member personified the organization's eccentricities or audacious mission more than Sir Francis Galton. A cousin of Charles Darwin's, he had been a child prodigy who, by the age of four, could read and recite Latin. He went on to concoct myriad inventions. They included a ventilating top hat; a machine called a Gumption-Reviver, which periodically wet his head to keep him awake during endless study; underwater goggles; and a rotating-vane …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1966).