Crossword-Solution: WINCES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WINCES | anagram | WENSIC |
We have 21 clues for the answer “WINCES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Reacts facially to a bad joke, say | 1 answer |
| Tenses from pain | 1 answer |
| Shows pain, in a way | 1 answer |
| Shows discomfort | 1 answer |
| Recoils in a way | 1 answer |
| Reacts to pain, in a way | 1 answer |
| Reacts to pain | 1 answer |
| Reacts to a terrible pun | 1 answer |
| Reacts to a sudden pain | 1 answer |
| Reacts to a sour note | 1 answer |
| Reacts to a shot, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Reactions to some puns | 1 answer |
| Draws back suddenly. | 1 answer |
| Common pun reactions | 1 answer |
| Bad jokes may elicit them | 1 answer |
| Shrinks away | 2 answers |
| Recoils | 5 answers |
| Flinches | 7 answers |
| Grimaces | 8 answers |
| Shrinks | 9 answers |
| Starts | 21 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WINCES (5)
The palace was gone, Strether remembered the palace; and when he gazed into the irremediable void of its site the historic sense in him might have been freely at play—the play under which in Paris indeed it so often winces like a touched nerve.
This fat, indolent, elderly man, whose nerves are so finely strung that he starts at chance noises, and winces when he sees a house-spaniel get a whipping, went into the stable-yard on the morning after his arrival, and put his hand on the head of a chained bloodhound—a beast so savage that the very groom who feeds him keeps out of his reach.
Either she thanks God with simple earnestness that he is well, or some infirmities of age beset him, and she mentions the fact, and then winces away from it, as from a sore that will not bear to be touched.
When he was rapped on the knuckles and elbows, with which he shielded his face and head, his winces were genuine and involuntary.
For, no doubt, the reader winces often because the novel reveals to himself certain possible baseness, selfishness, and meanness.
Quotes with WINCES (3)
Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.” He winces. “We didn’t even get a first chance.
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.
To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock over a foot onto the stub of himself--his extra sensitive thumb, his tentacle, his delicate, stalked slug's eye which extrudes, expands, winces and shrivels back into himself when touched wrongly, grows big again. Bulging a little at the tip, traveling forward as if along a leaf into them, avid for vision. To achieve vision in this way; this journey into a darkness that is com…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1961–2022).