Best answers for backwardness – Crossword Clue

1. Definition: 1. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"

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1. Definition: 1. having lost freshness through passage of time;

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1. Definition: 1. a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal; "stayed home in a sulk"

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1. Definition: 1. deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"

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1. Definition: 1. failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent"

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1. Definition: 1. a feeling of fear of embarrassment

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1. Definition: 1. disposed to avoid notice; "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)

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1. Definition: 1. a message refusing to accept something that is offered

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1. Definition: 1. the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary

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1. Definition: 1. doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like; "his style of painting was a reaction against cubism"

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1. Definition: 1. people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid"

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1. Definition: 1. the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary

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1. Definition: 1. discipline in personal and social activities; "he was a model of polite restraint"; "she never lost control of herself"

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1. Definition: 1. withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation; "the religious retreat is a form of vacation activity"

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1. Definition: 1. the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents; "these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog"

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1. Definition: 1. intense aversion

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1. Definition: 1. the termination of drug taking

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1. Definition: 1. the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion

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1. Definition: 1. resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires

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1. Definition: 1. the trait of being unwilling; "his unwillingness to cooperate vetoed every proposal I made"; "in spite of our warnings he plowed ahead with the involuntariness of an automaton"

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1. Definition: 1. the trait of being unmanageable

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1. Definition: 1. the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time

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