Crossword-Solution: PLAINNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plainness | n. | The quality or state of being plain. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “PLAINNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the appearance of being plain and unpretentious | 1 answer |
| the state of being unmixed with other material | 1 answer |
| Unpretentious quality | 2 answers |
| BEAUTY (ant.) | 5 answers |
| luminance | 15 answers |
| vividness | 16 answers |
| luminosity | 23 answers |
| clearness | 30 answers |
| cheerlessness | 31 answers |
| lucidity | 37 answers |
| Clarity. | 38 answers |
| ___ good faith | 40 answers |
| Simplicity | 43 answers |
| Un-adorned | 52 answers |
| Severity | 66 answers |
| desolation | 75 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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PLAINNESS (5)
Thea noticed that her plainness was accounted to her credit, and that people spoke of it affectionately.
Curtly enough, I refused to alter my garb, and when one of them stammeringly referred to the Empress’s tastes I asked him with plainness if he had got any definite commands on this paltry matter from her mightiness.
Always, in his very appearance, you see something of this ruggedness of the hills; a ruggedness, a sincerity, a plainness, that mark alike his character and his looks.
When I was there I heard many shocking tales, for my informants were men speaking with the plainness of the laity; and I heard plenty of complaints of Damien.
Benbow has a bulldog quality that suits the man’s character, and it takes us back to those English archers who were his true comrades for plainness, tenacity, and pluck.
Quotes with PLAINNESS (3)
Cressida: My lord, will you be true? Troilus: Who, I? Alas, it is my vice, my fault: Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion, I with great truth catch mere simplicity; Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns, With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare. Fear not my truth: the moral of my wit Is "plain and true"; there's all the reach of it.
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'dWhat oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for — Doing.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1986).