Crossword-Solution: MIMICRY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mimicry | n. | The act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule. |
| Mimicry | n. | Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies; imitation; mimesis; mimetism. |
We have 32 clues for the answer “MIMICRY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects | 1 answer |
| Apish mockery. | 1 answer |
| Close resemblence | 1 answer |
| Copycat's game | 1 answer |
| Copycat's skill | 1 answer |
| Little specialty | 1 answer |
| Mockingbird's forte | 1 answer |
| Show sadness after "La Bohème" character's impersonation (7) | 1 answer |
| The art of imitation | 1 answer |
| Thespian's art. | 1 answer |
| mimesis | 1 answer |
| muchness | 1 answer |
| provides concealment and protection from predators | 1 answer |
| APERY | 6 answers |
| mimicking | 11 answers |
| Pantomime | 13 answers |
| Mocking | 22 answers |
| Skit | 29 answers |
| mutuality | 31 answers |
| uniformity | 33 answers |
| Impersonation | 45 answers |
| Satire | 47 answers |
| Parody | 47 answers |
| Photograph | 50 answers |
| simulation | 59 answers |
| Perform-ing | 64 answers |
| Semblance | 65 answers |
| Likeness | 72 answers |
| guise | 77 answers |
| Ridicule | 81 answers |
| Representation | 83 answers |
| Imitation | 91 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with MIMICRY (5)
The Negro himself had also contributed to this fiction by his custom of social mimicry, his habit of appearing to fill the role which whites expected of him.
His seeming rescue by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had been but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony—the sun looking down upon him through the opening at the top of the court had claimed him as his own, and the priestess had come from the inner temple to save him from the polluting hands of worldlings—to save him as a human offering to their flaming deity.
The wearing of the Arab burnoose which Tarzan had placed upon his person had aroused in the mind of the anthropoid a desire for similar mimicry of the Tarmangani.
Corey was so friendly! She didn't make one feel at all as if she'd bought me, and thought she'd given too much; and mother held up her head as if she were all wool and a yard wide, and she would just like to have anybody deny it." In a few touches of mimicry she dashed off a sketch of the scene: her mother's trepidation, and Mrs.
Bitter and vindictive sarcasm, irresistible mimicry, and a pathetic narrative of his own experiences of slavery, were the intellectual manifestations which they encouraged him to exhibit on the platform or in the lecture desk.
Quotes with MIMICRY (3)
Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which giv…
The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.
She was a mimicry of a facade fashioned from the half-truths of her life. She was a beautiful abomination, patched together from the most pristine and terrible parts she could find. She was a black crystal of many cuts and facets whose dark glow suffocated and entranced those it washed over. There was a pointlessness in her eyes and apathy in her stature, and further in, past the symphonies of nightmarish screams was a blinding light. All the capability she could ever ask for…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1944–2021).