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Word entry · 3 letters

sic

Best crossword clue

"Attack, as a dog"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /sɪk/Part of speech adverb, verbSorted cisStarts with SEnds with C2 cluesCommon crossword word
1S2I3C

Definitions

  1. intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase)

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Latin sīc (“thus, so”).

Used in a sentence

  • Bolinger, Dwight (1977) ‘Pronoun and repeated nouns.’ Lingua18:1-34 [Quoted sic in Toolan 1990. Neither in Lingua 18, nor in the 1977 volume of that journal.]
  • Joseph Wright, his predecessor in the chair, called him ‘a firstrate Scholar and a kind of man who will easily make friends’ at Oxford (quoted, sic, in E.M. Wright, The Life of Joseph Wright (1932), p. 483).
  • whole bussiness: Quoted sic in George F. Willison, Saints and Strangers (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1945)

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Attack, as a dog3 letters
02Thus, used in quotations3 letters

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