Avoid deliberately
The crossword clue "Avoid deliberately" is answered by SHUN, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SHUN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SHUN answer page.
Used 10 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SHUN
Every other clue in this collection answered by SHUN, most used first.
- Avoid - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
- Eschew - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Steer clear of - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Give the cold shoulder to - used 32 times, most recently in 2024
- Keep away from - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Ostracize - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Cold-shoulder - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Have nothing to do with - used 24 times, most recently in 2023
- Deliberately avoid - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Stay away from - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Give the cold shoulder - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Avoid socially - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Turn one's back on - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Keep clear of. - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Treat like a pariah - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Avoid like the plague - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Blackball - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Give a wide berth to - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Shy away from - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Turn away from - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
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.
- Avoid - MISS, used 10 times
- Deliberately ignore - SNUB, used 8 times
- Avoid a collision - VEER, used 7 times
- Something to avoid - NONO, used 7 times
- Thing to avoid - NONO, used 7 times
- What vegans avoid - MEAT, used 7 times
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