Crossword-Solution: SPASTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spastic | a. | Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “SPASTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Acting fitfully | 1 answer |
| Afflicted with muscle tremors | 1 answer |
| Hopped up on sugar, say | 1 answer |
| Like some jerks | 1 answer |
| Like the onstage behavior of many punk rock singers | 1 answer |
| Moving twitchily | 1 answer |
| Of muscular contractions | 1 answer |
| offensive slang for a person with cerebral palsy | 1 answer |
| Moving jerkily | 2 answers |
| Not moving smoothly | 2 answers |
| A PERSON AFFLICTED WITH LEPROSY | 11 answers |
| fitful | 36 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPASTIC (5)
Angell and Elsner in March, 1895, reported a case of anencephaly, or rather pseudencephaly, associated with double divergent strabismus and limbs in a state of constant spastic contraction.
Also known as "Tic Speech." SPASTIC SPEECH: This is often the result of infantile cerebral palsy, the characteristic symptom of the trouble being intense over-exertion, continued throughout a sentence, the syllables being equal in length and very laboriously enunciated.
Vitus Dance) is frequently the cause of stuttering of a type known as Choreatic Stuttering or "Tic Speech." Infantile Cerebral Palsy sometimes brings about a condition known as "Spastic Speech," while whooping cough, scarlet fever, measles, meningitis, infantile paralysis, scrofula and rickets are sometimes responsible for the disorder.
Under the spastic orgy of legalized robbery of state assets that passed for privatisation, millions were made redundant while thousands enriched themselves by choreographed looting.
Gait feeble, spastic, and paralytic, could not mount steps at all or stand without aid, sway very great.
Quotes with SPASTIC (3)
Cross-legged on the floor, you drink, hoping each mouthful will hurt; occasional flurries of spastic movement as you try to work out what to do with your hands. When everyone else is gone, your world is just a tiny box with the walls pressing in. Messages on the phone you can't bear to play, much less listen to, and nothing in the apartment that you can recognize as meaningfully yours.
Her eyes narrowed, but she wasn't yelling. I think she liked me... kind of. The way a mother would like an annoying spastic two year old who belonged to someone else.
Sometimes, I feel my breath coming in shorter, quicker, spastic bursts, feel my heart threaten to thunder through my ribs, feel sweat beading on my brow... and I know it’s time to bust out those “chocolate frogs” from Harry Potter.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1993–2020).