Crossword-Solution: PYRRHIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pyrrhic | a. | Of or pertaining to an ancient Greek martial dance. |
| Pyrrhic | a. | Of or pertaining to a pyrrhic, or to pyrrhics; containing pyrrhic; as, a pyrrhic verse. |
| Pyrrhic | n. | An ancient Greek martial dance, to the accompaniment of the flute, its time being very quick. |
| Pyrrhic | n. | A foot consisting of two short syllables. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “PYRRHIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Costly, as a victory | 1 answer |
| metrical foot of two short or unstressed syllables | 1 answer |
| an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare | 1 answer |
| a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables | 1 answer |
| ___ victory (costly success). | 1 answer |
| Very costly, as victories | 1 answer |
| Very costly, as a victory | 1 answer |
| METRICAL foot of two short syllables, based on | 1 answer |
| Like a costly victory | 1 answer |
| GREEK war-dance, ancient | 1 answer |
| Describing victory at great cost. | 1 answer |
| Like some victories | 3 answers |
| *… war dance … | 3 answers |
| Kind of victory | 4 answers |
| Greek dance | 4 answers |
| anapest relative | 5 answers |
| Two-syllable foot | 6 answers |
| dance Greek | 12 answers |
| Metric Foot | 12 answers |
| Victory | 26 answers |
| Expensive | 58 answers |
| Foot | 64 answers |
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Sentences with PYRRHIC (5)
The Roll of the Kettledrum; or, The Lay of the Last Charger "You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?"--Byron.
Poyser curtsied duly, and watched the two horses until they had disappeared from the yard, amidst great excitement on the part of the pigs and the poultry, and under the furious indignation of the bull-dog, who performed a Pyrrhic dance, that every moment seemed to threaten the breaking of his chain.
The soldiers were diligently instructed to march, to run, to leap, to swim, to carry heavy burdens, to handle every species of arms that was used either for offence or for defence, either in distant engagement or in a closer onset; to form a variety of evolutions; and to move to the sound of flutes in the Pyrrhic or martial dance.
Sabinian fixed his indolent station under the walls of Edessa; and while he amused himself with the idle parade of military exercise, and moved to the sound of flutes in the Pyrrhic dance, the public defence was abandoned to the boldness and diligence of the former general of the East.
Their lances were commanded by the valiant Ursel of Baliol, the kinsman or father of the Scottish kings, 32 and were allowed to excel in the exercise of arms, or, according to the Greek style, in the practice of the Pyrrhic dance.
Quotes with PYRRHIC (3)
The exegesis Fat labored on month after month struck me as a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one -- in this case an attempt by a beleaguered mind to make sense out of the inscrutable. Perhaps this is the bottom line to mental illness: incomprehensible events occur; your life becomes a bin for hoax-like fluctuations of what used to be reality. And not only that -- as if that weren't enough -- but you, like Fat, ponder forever over these fluctuations in an effort to order the…
The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth — that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans — is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots — the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which tur…
Narcissistic pleasure seekers routinely avoid developing the humility required to manufacture a life of full measure. Shallow persons such as me hide their insecurities behind a false persona of bravado, boasting of their inconsequential deeds, pyrrhic victories, and adamant refusals to tackle any task that they fear.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1956–2022).