Gave out sparingly

The answer

DOLED

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DOLED answer page.

Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1952. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DOLED

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

• Meted (out) - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Parceled (out) - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Handed (out) - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Rationed (out) - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Distributed - used 14 times, most recently in 2008
• Gave (out) - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Rationed, with "out" - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
• Apportioned (with "out") - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Parceled - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Passed (out) - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Meted - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Portioned (out) - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Distributed, with "out" - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Rationed - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

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.

• Wipe out - ERASE, used 244 times
• Rub out - ERASE, used 217 times
• Leaves out - OMITS, used 205 times
• Parcel out - ALLOT, used 177 times
• Draw out - EDUCE, used 168 times
• Growing out - ENATE, used 159 times

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