Regretful RSVPs

The answer

NOES

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

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NOES

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

• Refusals - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
• Turndowns - used 40 times, most recently in 2024
• Negatives - used 38 times, most recently in 2023
• Denials - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Rejections - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Negative votes - used 24 times, most recently in 2012
• Some votes - used 19 times, most recently in 2012
• "Nay" and "uh-uh" - used 16 times, most recently in 2016
• Votes against - used 16 times, most recently in 2019
• Discouraging words - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
• Certain votes - used 12 times, most recently in 2003
• Thumbs-down votes - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
• Negative responses - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Negative words - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Thumbs-downs - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Vetoes - used 9 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.

• Regretful one - RUER, used 45 times
• Porter's regretful Miss - OTIS, used 15 times
• Regretful word - ALAS, used 12 times
• Regretful Miss of song - OTIS, used 11 times
• Regretful feeling - PANG, used 10 times
• Regretful person - RUER, used 9 times

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