Crossword-Solution: MICAWBER
We have 19 clues for the answer “MICAWBER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| person who idles and trusts to fortune | 1 answer |
| W. C. Fields' role in "David Copperfield." | 1 answer |
| Uriah Heep employee | 1 answer |
| PERSON perpetually idling and trusting that something good will turn up | 1 answer |
| Mr. or Mrs. in "David Copperfield" | 1 answer |
| Doggedly optimistic "David Copperfield" character | 1 answer |
| Dickens character whose first name is Wilkins | 1 answer |
| Incurable optimist | 2 answers |
| Overoptimistic person | 3 answers |
| AN ETERNAL OPTIMIST | 11 answers |
| hoper | 27 answers |
| aspirant | 29 answers |
| platonist | 30 answers |
| romanticist | 33 answers |
| Competitor | 33 answers |
| Suitor | 34 answers |
| Contes-tant | 49 answers |
| Idler | 50 answers |
| Visionary | 93 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MICAWBER (5)
Wandering about, Micawber-like, in hopes that something might turn up, he reached Posen, and there either met or heard of the Polish Count, Ladislas Kasincsky, who was seeking a tutor for his only son.
There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.
Micawber’s retort, ‘Really, my dear, I am not aware that you were ever required by any human being to do anything of the sort.’ At intervals, a gloom would fall on the passing members of the procession, for which I was at first unable to account.
Micawber, in the Colonies, was never again to make punch with lemons, in a crisis of his fortunes, and "resume his peeling with a desperate air"; nor to observe the expression of his friends' faces during Mrs.
Micawber's masterly exposition of the financial situation or of the possibilities of the coal trade; nor to eat walnuts out of a paper bag what time the die was cast and all was over.
Quotes with MICAWBER (2)
My dear Copperfield,” he replied. “To a man possessed of the higher imaginative powers, the objection to legal studies is the amount of detail which they involve. Even in our professional correspondence,” said Mr. Micawber, glancing at some letters he was writing, “the mind is not at liberty to soar to any exalted form of expression. Still, it is a great pursuit! A great pursuit!
I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house "in case anything turned up "which was his favorite expression.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1947–2011).