Crossword-Solution: WOODENLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Woodenly | adv. | Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “WOODENLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| How lousy actors deliver their lines | 1 answer |
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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 WOODENLY (5)
The youth, with his chin still on his breast, stood woodenly by while his companion beat ways and means out of sullen things.
There were soldiers standing on street corners; soldiers staring woodenly into shop windows; soldiers halted suddenly into stone, like lizards, at the approach of Offiziere; Offiziere lounging stiffly four abreast, sweeping the pavement with their trailing sabres all at one angle.
The two had met in the many-legged heart of things, and, as Stalky said, had “done each other proud.” As they swaggered woodenly behind the teams--substitutes do not rank as equals of hairy men--they passed a pony-carriage near the wall, and a husky voice cried, “Well played.
They remained wilfully, not to say woodenly, the young bridal pair of that romance, without the promise of novel functioning.
Quiet efficiency--that's the wheeze! What do you think of those for coops, Beale?" The Hired Man examined them woodenly.
Quotes with WOODENLY (2)
I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.
Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know. The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time's scrawl as a right and your daring as necessity; the page, which you cover woodenly, ruining it, but asserting your freedom and power to act, acknowledging that you ruin everything you touch but touching it nevertheless, because acting is better than being here in mere opacity; the page, which you cover slowly with …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2011).