Crossword-Solution: MIMICS
We have 17 clues for the answer “MIMICS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Tries to act like | 1 answer |
| Plays Pass the Face, perhaps | 1 answer |
| People who make an impression? | 1 answer |
| Impressionists, on stage | 1 answer |
| Closely resembles | 1 answer |
| Does impressions | 1 answer |
| Impressionists | 2 answers |
| Does impressions of | 2 answers |
| Does like | 2 answers |
| Ones who imitate | 2 answers |
| Makes like | 3 answers |
| Takes after | 5 answers |
| Impersonates | 7 answers |
| Copy-cats. | 7 answers |
| Imitates | 10 answers |
| Apes | 17 answers |
| Copies | 17 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
EMAZCE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MIMICS (5)
Being naturally great mimics of men’s actions, they showed themselves most apt pupils, and when arrayed in their rich clothes and masks, they danced as well as any of the courtiers.
AMONG the delightful men and women whom you are certain to meet at an English country house there is generally one guest who is supposed to be preternaturally clever and amusing--“so very droll, don't you know.” He recites things, tells stories in costermonger dialect, and mimics public characters.
And now I should like you to tell me, whether the Sophist is not visibly a magician and imitator of true being; or are we still disposed to think that he may have a true knowledge of the various matters about which he disputes? THEAETETUS: But how can he, Stranger? Is there any doubt, after what has been said, that he is to be located in one of the divisions of children's play? STRANGER: Then we must place him in the class of magicians and mimics.
Sam: Have they not Sword-players, and ev'ry sort Of Gymnic Artists, Wrestlers, Riders, Runners, Juglers and Dancers, Antics, Mummers, Mimics, But they must pick me out with shackles tir'd, And over-labour'd at thir publick Mill, To make them sport with blind activity? Do they not seek occasion of new quarrels On my refusal to distress me more, 1330 Or make a game of my calamities? Return the way thou cam'st, I will not come.
Bees and wasps are dreaded for their sting, and they are copied by harmless flies of the genera Eristalis and Syrphus, and these mimics often occur in swarms about flowering plants without damage to themselves or to their models; they are feared and are therefore left unmolested.
Quotes with MIMICS (3)
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It …
The shaping of character mimics the smallest detail of habit; humans are creatures that learn from observation. Each little thing you do, and each thing you allow yourself to become desensitized to matters. They create you — whether you know it consciously or not.
A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1998–2024).