Crossword-Solution: SLIGHTER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Slighter | n. | One who slights. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SLIGHTER | anagram | LIGHTERS, RELIGHTS, THEGIRLS |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SLIGHTER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Not as substantial | 1 answer |
| More petite | 4 answers |
| Less important | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SLIGHTER (5)
Lou was still the slighter of the two, the quicker and more intelligent, but apt to go off at half-cock.
Morally, as well as materially, there was a coarser fibre in those wives and maidens of old English birth and breeding than in their fair descendants, separated from them by a series of six or seven generations; for, throughout that chain of ancestry, every successive mother had transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty, and a slighter physical frame, if not character of less force and solidity than her own.
And hence, as I think, it came about that Edward Hyde was so much smaller, slighter, and younger than Henry Jekyll.
She had eaten the meal that had been brought her by Mohammed Beyd’s Negro slave—a meal of cassava cakes and a nondescript stew in which a new-killed monkey, a couple of squirrels and the remains of a zebra, slain the previous day, were impartially and unsavorily combined; but the one-time Baltimore belle had long since submerged in the stern battle for existence, an estheticism which formerly revolted at much slighter provocation.
But for a time there was a relief, which Walker noted, in the atmosphere at the office, and then came another cold wave, slighter than the first, but distinctly felt there, and succeeded by another relief.
Quotes with SLIGHTER (2)
Hope is a slighter, tougher thing even than trust, he thought, pacing his room as the soundless, vague lightning flashed overhead. In a good season one trusts life; in a bad season one only hopes, But they are of the same essence: they are the mind's indispensable relationship with other minds, with the world, and with time. Without trust, a man lives, but not a human life; without hope, he dies. When there is no relationship, where hands do not touch, emotion atrophies in vo…
Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2003–2019).