Crossword-Solution: REFRACTORY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Refractory | a. | Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast. |
| Refractory | a. | Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore. |
| Refractory | n. | A refractory person. |
| Refractory | n. | Refractoriness. |
| Refractory | n. | OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles. |
We have 41 clues for the answer “REFRACTORY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Heat resistant | 1 answer |
| JIBBING | 2 answers |
| Difficult to control | 9 answers |
| mordacious | 9 answers |
| rotating | 16 answers |
| atrabilious | 18 answers |
| Substituting | 19 answers |
| replacing | 19 answers |
| changed | 23 answers |
| balky | 23 answers |
| reforming | 26 answers |
| rejecting | 27 answers |
| Varying | 28 answers |
| anarchistic | 43 answers |
| insurrectionary | 44 answers |
| resisting | 45 answers |
| anarchical | 45 answers |
| Opposite | 48 answers |
| treasonous | 52 answers |
| ungovernable | 54 answers |
| Against | 55 answers |
| guerrilla | 55 answers |
| Converse | 60 answers |
| replacement | 62 answers |
| churning | 62 answers |
| exasperated | 63 answers |
| brawling | 63 answers |
| Querulous | 65 answers |
| in opposition | 65 answers |
| infuriated | 65 answers |
| Varied. | 67 answers |
| burned up | 67 answers |
| stirred up | 67 answers |
| Various | 69 answers |
| pugnacious | 69 answers |
| angered | 69 answers |
| Snappy. | 70 answers |
| provoked | 71 answers |
| curiosity | 72 answers |
| Sour | 80 answers |
| Red | 119 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
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greedy person
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Sentences with REFRACTORY (5)
Here, Fangs! Fangs!” he ejaculated at the top of his voice to a ragged wolfish-looking dog, a sort of lurcher, half mastiff, half greyhound, which ran limping about as if with the purpose of seconding his master in collecting the refractory grunters; but which, in fact, from misapprehension of the swine-herd’s signals, ignorance of his own duty, or malice prepense, only drove them hither and thither, and increased the evil which he seemed to design to remedy.
The officiating undertakers made some protest against these changes in the ceremonies; but, the river being alarmingly near, and several voices remarking on the efficacy of cold immersion in bringing refractory members of the profession to reason, the protest was faint and brief.
Let them look round and select a spot whence they can best suppress insurrection, if any prove refractory within, and also defend themselves against enemies, who like wolves may come down on the fold from without; there let them encamp, and when they have encamped, let them sacrifice to the proper Gods and prepare their dwellings.
Most fortunately the coal-scuttle was actually at my elbow, and it was easy to find a flat bit of coal to lay on the refractory page.
The ruggedness of the head, which looked as though it were carved from a stone refractory to the sculptor’s chisel, the rough mane of dark hair, the great nose, and the massive bones of the jaw, suggested a man of strength; and yet Philip wondered whether perhaps the mask concealed a strange weakness.
Quotes with REFRACTORY (1)
Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man.