Deferential denial
The crossword clue "Deferential denial" is answered by NOSIR, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2007. 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
NOSIR
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NOSIR answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for NOSIR
Every other clue in this collection answered by NOSIR, most used first.
- Polite refusal - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
- Polite denial - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Private reply? - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Respectful refusal - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Military denial - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Polite turndown - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Respectful denial - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Emphatic denial - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Emphatic turndown - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Polite rejection - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Soldier's denial - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Boot camp reply - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- Words of denial - NOTME, used 18 times
- Quaint denial - TISNT, used 12 times
- Terse denial - NOTME, used 12 times
- Phrase of denial - NOTME, used 6 times
- Words of denial - NOTSO, used 6 times
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