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Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

FAT
Excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others"

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FREE
People who are free; "the home of the free and the brave"

LAZY
Disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"

EASE
Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool"

LIMP
The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg

WEAK
Wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity"

SOFT
(of sound) relatively low in volume; "soft voices"; "soft music"

EASY
Obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally; "easy money"

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LOOSE
Become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"

SLACK
A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

INERT
Having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive; "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a reaction"

GUIDE
A structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something

VAGUE
Not clearly understood or expressed; "an obscure turn of phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard; "their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"- P.A.Sorokin; "vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science"- John Locke

BROAD
Slang term for a woman; "a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch"

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DOLESS

AGEOLD

BEAKED
Having or resembling a beak

UNBIND
Untie or unfasten; "unbind the feet of this poor woman"

SEXUAL
Involved in a sexual relationship; "the intimate (or sexual) relations between husband and wife"; "she had been intimate with many men"; "he touched her intimate parts"

GUIDED
Subject to guidance or control especially after launching; "a guided missile"

LOOSEN
Become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"

CASUAL
Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"

AMETUR

WANTON
Spend wastefully; "wanton one's money away"

LESSEN
Decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"

REMISS
Failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills"

SLOPPY
Wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"

FLABBY
Out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance; "he was too soft for the army"; "flabby around the middle"; "flaccid cheeks"

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LENIENT
Not strict; "an easy teacher"; "easy standards"; "lenient rules"; "an easy penalty"

FLACCID
Out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance; "he was too soft for the army"; "flabby around the middle"; "flaccid cheeks"

AMATEUR
Someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime

GUIDING
Showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on; "felt his mother's directing arm around him"; "the directional role of science on industrial progress"

IMMORAL
Deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

GENERAL
A fact about the whole (as opposed to particular); "he discussed the general but neglected the particular"

INEXACT
Not exact

PATCHED
Mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch; "patched jeans"

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BEAKLIKE
Resembling the beak of a bird; "a grizzled man with a beaklike nose"

TOLERANT
Tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke"

WIDEOPEN

INDOLENT
Disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"

DILATORY
Wasting time

DERELICT
A ship abandoned on the high seas

INACTIVE
Not active physically or mentally; "illness forced him to live an inactive life"; "dreamy and inactive by nature"

YIELDING
Lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure; "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber"

CARELESS
Effortless and unstudied; "an impression of careless elegance"; "danced with careless grace"

SLIPSHOD
Marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"

SLAPDASH
Marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"

DROOPING
Hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness)

JURISTIC
Of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations

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IMPRECISE
Not precise; "imprecise astronomical observations"; "the terms he used were imprecise and emotional"

SQUEALING
Having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge

SQUEAMISH
Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

EASYGOING
Easy unobstructed progress; "after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing"

NEGLIGENT
Characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern; "negligent parents"; "negligent of detail"; "negligent in his correspondence"

UNKNOWING
Ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs)

FORGETFUL
Failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her responsibilities"; "oblivious old age"

DISSOLUTE
Unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"

OBLIVIOUS
Failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her responsibilities"; "oblivious old age"

SHAPELESS
Having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles"; "a shapeless mass of protoplasm"

LEISURELY
Not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace"

UNMINDFUL
(followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of; "oblivious of the mounting pressures for political reform"; "oblivious to the risks she ran"; "not unmindful of the heavy responsibility"

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INACCURATE
Not exact; "an inaccurate translation"; "the thermometer is inaccurate"

ONSPECIFIC

INDEFINITE
Vague or not clearly defined or stated; "must you be so indefinite?"; "amorphous blots of color having vague and indefinite edges"; "he would not answer so indefinite a proposal"

BEHINDHAND
In debt; "he fell behind with his mortgage payments"; "a month behind in the rent"; "a company that has been run behindhand for years"; "in arrears with their utility bills"

DELINQUENT
Guilty of a misdeed; "delinquent minors"

NEGLECTFUL
Not showing due care or attention; "inattentive students"; "an inattentive babysitter"; "neglectful parents"

LICENTIOUS
Lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained; "coarse and licentious men"

PROFLIGATE
A recklessly extravagant consumer

REGARDLESS
(usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration; "careless of the consequences"; "crushing the blooms with regardless tread"

PERMISSIVE
Granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline; "direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive"; "permissive parents"

OPENMINDED

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PROMISCUOUS
Casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"

INATTENTIVE
Not showing due care or attention; "inattentive students"; "an inattentive babysitter"; "neglectful parents"

INDIFFERENT
Being neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French"

NONSPECIFIC
Not caused by a specific agent; used also of staining in making microscope slides; "nonspecific enteritis"

12 letters

DISREGARDFUL

COMMESIONATE

UNRESTRAINED
Not subject to restraint; "unrestrained laughter"

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IRRESPONSIBLE
Showing lack of care for consequences; "behaved like an irresponsible idiot"; "hasty and irresponsible action"

UNCONSTRAINED
Free from constraint; "he was unconstrained by any of the sanctions of polite society"; "the dog was unconstrained"; "idle, unconstrained gossip"

OVERINDULGENT
Excessively indulgent

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UNPROFESSIONAL
Not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession; "described in unprofessional language so that high school students could understand it"; "was censured for unprofessional conduct"; "unprofessional repairs"

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PROCRASTINATING