Crossword-Solution: LOCUTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Locution | n. | Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “LOCUTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Speaker's tone | 1 answer |
| Regional idiom | 1 answer |
| Phrasing style | 1 answer |
| Style of speaking | 2 answers |
| Manner of speaking. | 12 answers |
| provincialism | 19 answers |
| pidgin | 19 answers |
| legalese | 19 answers |
| localism | 21 answers |
| Parlance | 24 answers |
| phraseology | 24 answers |
| phrase | 24 answers |
| Patois | 27 answers |
| Lingo | 27 answers |
| gobbledygook | 28 answers |
| argot | 29 answers |
| Idiom | 31 answers |
| Term | 38 answers |
| wording | 45 answers |
| Word | 52 answers |
| Cant | 55 answers |
| ACCENT ___ | 57 answers |
| Gibberish | 60 answers |
| Expression | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LOCUTION (5)
And let me give you my opinion, Willoughby, that he will take Crossjay with him rather than leave him, if there is a fear of the boy's missing his chance of the navy." "Marines appear to be in the ascendant," said Sir Willoughby, astonished at the locution and pleading in the interests of a son of one.
Knowing what was to come, and thoroughly nerved to confute the main incident, Richard barely listened to his barbarous locution: but when the recital arrived at the point where the Bantam affirmed he had seen "T'm Baak'll wi's owen hoies," Richard faced him, and was amazed to find himself being mutely addressed by a series of intensely significant grimaces, signs, and winks.
Knowing what was to come, and thoroughly nerved to confute the main incident, Richard barely listened to his barbarous locution: but when the recital arrived at the point where the Bantam affirmed he had seen “T’m Baak’ll wi’s owen hoies,” Richard faced him, and was amazed to find himself being mutely addressed by a series of intensely significant grimaces, signs, and winks.
This nickname was bestowed upon him on account of his coquettish style of dressing and manners, his slender waist, which looked as if it were laced in a corset, his pale face on which a nascent mustache could hardly be seen, and also on account of the habit he had acquired, in order to express his supreme contempt for persons and things, of using continually the French locution: "Fi! fi donc!" which he pronounced with a slight lisping.
The portion of blackboard overshadowed will indeed be blackish, but the portion illuminated by full sunlight will be comparatively white, although it is still thought of as a "_black_-board." So, too, ask the man in the street for the colour of trees, and he will reply "green." If I may permit myself a vulgar locution, the green is in his eye.
Quotes with LOCUTION (1)
Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United States of America was unsatisfactory. For one thing, it allowed of no convenient adjectival form. A citizen would have to be either a United Statesian or some other such clumsy locution, or an American, thereby arrogating to ourselves a title that belonged equally to the inhabitants of some three dozen other nations on two continent…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Slate.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2009–2024).