The Clue
"Beg your pardon" (5 letter answer)
The Answer
SORRY
Tags
Notes
The answer SORRY is uncommon, appearing about once every 450 puzzles.
Related Clues
Abject
"Apologies!"
Contrite
"Oops!"
Pitiful
Rueful
Wretched
Brief apology
Counterpart of safe
"My bad"
"My mistake!"
"Pardon me"
Polite word
Word of apology
Word of politesse
"___, Wrong Number"
Classic board game
Classic kids' game
"Not my problem!"
Popular board game
Word with "wrong number"
Wrong-number word
"I take it back"
"You'll be ___!"
"Who's ___ Now?": 1923 song
Definition
SORRY as an adjective:
1. (pitying, sorry) = feeling or expressing sorrow or pity; "a pitying observer threw his coat around her shoulder"
2. (regretful, sorry, bad) = feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"
3. (deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry) = bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
4. (blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary) = causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
5. (good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry) = without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk"