Polite denial
The crossword clue "Polite denial" is answered by NOTI, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NOTI
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NOTI answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- NODEAR (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for NOTI
Every other clue in this collection answered by NOTI, most used first.
- Words of denial - used 64 times, most recently in 2025
- "Don't look at me!" - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Reply to the Little Red Hen - used 41 times, most recently in 2023
- Terse denial - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Phrase of denial - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- "It wasn't me!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Response to the Little Red Hen - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Denier's words - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- "Me? Never!" - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Formal denial - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- "Wasn't me!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- "Count me out!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- "The Little Red Hen" denial - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Curt denial - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- "It was someone else" - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Answer to the Little Red Hen - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Denial of a sort - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- "The Little Red Hen" response - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Words of self-denial? - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- "Don't blame me!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- "You've got the wrong person" - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Polite address - MAAM, used 88 times
- Polite fellow - GENT, used 36 times
- Polite term of address - MAAM, used 36 times
- Dresden denial - NEIN, used 33 times
- Russian denial - NYET, used 27 times
- Slangy denial - NOPE, used 27 times
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