The significance of being stingy with the gin unfortunately (7) Crossword Clue (2024)

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What is a 7 letter word meaning cowardly? ›

7 letter answer(s) to cowardly

GUTLESS.

: a mischievous and often poor and raggedly clothed youngster. street urchins.

Solve each clue and chuck out every A, E, I, O and U in the solution; if you get it right, the remaining letters fit.

The verb INCLUDE is the most frequently used 7-letter word.

If your clothes are torn and dirty, they're also rags, and from the sense of "worthless scrap," trashy or low quality newspapers have also long been called rags. A rag is also a somewhat annoying joke, and to rag someone is to annoy or harass them.

torn, old, or shabby clothing. cotton or linen cloth waste used in the manufacture of rag paper. from rags to riches informal. from rags to riches. from poverty to great wealth.

If something such as clothing or a book is tattered, it is damaged or torn, especially because it has been used a lot over a long period of time. He fled wearing only a sarong and a tattered shirt. ... a very old, tattered, phone directory. Synonyms: torn, ripped, ragged, frayed More Synonyms of tattered.

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Scan through the clues, and knock out all the easiest ones. Not only will this give your gameplay some structure, but also it'll give you an ego boost! Typically, fill-in-the-blank clues are the easiest. For example: “___ of Oz.”

However, many times the blank space can be filled in with two or more words. In easier crosswords, multiple words will be indicated with (2 words) or (2 wds.), but more often than not it will be up to the solver to determine how many words fill in the space. Another hint sometimes used in clues is (hyphenated).

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Look at each unsolved clue in turn, if you can solve it great, fill it in and move on. If not, see if you can form a guess as to what the answer could be. If you are not sure, fill in your guess lightly on the puzzle so that you can erase it if you do find that you are incorrect.

Some common synonyms of cowardly are craven, dastardly, and pusillanimous. While all these words mean "having or showing a lack of courage," cowardly implies a weak or ignoble lack of courage. a cowardly failure to stand up for principle.

Synonyms. wimp (informal) chicken (slang) scaredy-cat (informal) yellow-belly (slang)

cowardly in American English

1. lacking courage; contemptibly timid. 2. characteristic of or befitting a coward; despicably mean, covert, or unprincipled.

The adverb (late 14c., from -ly (2)) is older than the adjective: Yit had I levir do what I may Than here to dye thus cowerdelye ["Le Morte d'Arthur," c. 1450] An Old English word for "cowardly" was earg, which also meant "slothful." Related: Cowardliness. also from 1550s.