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Clewless vs Clawless - What's the difference?

clewless | clawless |

As adjectives the difference between clewless and clawless

is that clewless is without a clew (thread to guide one's way through a maze while clawless is having no claws.

As an adverb clewless

is without a clew (thread to guide one's way through a maze.

clewless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Without a clew (thread to guide one's way through a maze)
  • * .
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    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Without a clew (thread to guide one's way through a maze)
  • * {{quote-book, passage=He wandered clewless in a maze of mystery.
    • , title=Idolatry , page=209 , author=Julian Hawthorne , pageurl=http://books.google.ca/books?id=heEvD4MND8wC&pg=PA209&dq=clewless&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Szd6T5CrC8LniALvyago&redir_esc=y
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    clawless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no claws.
  • * 1920 , Journal of Genetics (volume 9, page 165)
    • Where both parents are clawless the progeny also are usually unclawed, indicating that the genetic factors concerned are either wholly lost to the germ plasm or too weak to express themselves in the soma.