Very bad
The crossword clue "Very bad" is answered by AWFUL, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
AWFUL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AWFUL answer page.
Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for AWFUL
Every other clue in this collection answered by AWFUL, most used first.
- Terrible - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Really bad - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Horrendous - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Worse than bad - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Horrible - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Appalling - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Atrocious - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Horrific - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Ghastly - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Just terrible - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- More than bad - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Bad and then some - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Go bad - SPOIL, used 77 times
- Very pale - ASHEN, used 69 times
- Very small - TEENY, used 68 times
- Very angry - IRATE, used 64 times
- Bad lighting? - ARSON, used 60 times
- Make very happy - ELATE, used 56 times
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