__ with faint praise

The answer

DAMN

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DAMN answer page.

Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• DAMNS (7 uses in xd)

Other clues for DAMN

Every other clue in this collection answered by DAMN, most used first.

• "___ Yankees" - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Rhett's last word - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Curse - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Butler's last word - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• Condemn - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Pulitzer-winning Kendrick Lamar album - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Rhett Butler's last word - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Accurse - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Execrate - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• "___ the torpedoes!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Consign to hell - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Denounce - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• "Wow!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Poems of praise - ODES, used 261 times
• Praise - LAUD, used 179 times
• Prefix with dynamic - AERO, used 152 times
• Share a border with - ABUT, used 152 times
• Done with - OVER, used 145 times
• With: Fr. - AVEC, used 132 times

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