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noun • an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words | ||||||||
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noun • a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter • mental ability • a witty amusing person who makes jokes | ||||||||
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noun • the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life • a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential • deep feeling or emotion • the human embodiment of something • a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s | ||||||||
So Brevity Different Crossword Clue
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VERBOSITY which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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VERBOSITY
Updated: October 14, 2023
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Similar Clues
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1 | "Brevity is the ___ wit": Shak.
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27 Jul 1985 | New York Times / 27 Jul 1985 |
2 | Brevity is its soul
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13 Oct 1979 | New York Times / 13 Oct 1979 |
3 | Is brevity so different? Yes!
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09 Jul 2019 | The Guardian Cryptic / 09 Jul 2019 |
4 | Literary technique used for brevity or to heighten emotion | |
5 | She said: "Brevity is the soul of lingerie"
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19 Aug 1977 | New York Times / 19 Aug 1977 |
6 | What brevity is to wit
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10 Sep 1981 | New York Times / 10 Sep 1981 |
7 | Without brevity |
