Crossword-Solution: LEANNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Leanness | n. | The condition or quality of being lean. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “LEANNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A quality of Cassius | 1 answer |
| Lanky quality | 1 answer |
| Quality of beef | 1 answer |
| Quality of good ground beef | 1 answer |
| the property of having little body fat | 1 answer |
| Meat quality | 2 answers |
| slimness | 2 answers |
| Famine | 58 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
CEMEZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with LEANNESS (5)
Bating her lame foot and her leanness (this last a horrid draw-back to a woman, in my opinion), the girl had some pleasing qualities in the eye of a man.
The herd itself of purpose they reduce To leanness, and when love's sweet longing first Provokes them, they forbid the leafy food, And pen them from the springs, and oft beside With running shake, and tire them in the sun, What time the threshing-floor groans heavily With pounding of the corn-ears, and light chaff Is whirled on high to catch the rising west.
The man was drawn for me as being of any height you like to mention, and of any degree of corpulence or leanness; clean-shaved or not, as the case might be; the colour of his hair Rowley ‘could not take it upon himself to put a name on’; that of his eyes he thought to have been blue—nay, it was the one point on which he attained to a kind of tearful certainty.
Rest must you have.” “No rest for me,” she said; “Nay, for near you, fair lord, I am at rest.” What might she mean by that? his large black eyes, Yet larger through his leanness, dwelt upon her, Till all her heart’s sad secret blazed itself In the heart’s colours on her simple face; And Lancelot looked and was perplext in mind, And being weak in body said no more; But did not love the colour; woman’s love, Save one, he not regarded, and so turned Sighing, and feigned a sleep until he slept.
The rest of his ruddy, knobby countenance, his erratic hair and his general hairy leanness had not even—to my perceptions grown.
Quotes with LEANNESS (3)
But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn't the "exercise explosion" and the "new fitness revolution" have launched and epidemic of leanness rather than coinciding with an epidemic of obesity?
You can train and train until you are blue in the face, but you've got to diet, you've got to have that leanness because if you are not lean, your abs won't show. Of course, the training has to be put in, but then you've to shed all the fat and keep the fat off. And that's how you get an eight pack.
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1986–2016).