The Clue
Inferior, as excuses go (3 letter answer)
The Answer
SAD
Tags
Notes
The answer SAD is seen frequently, appearing about once every 60 puzzles.
Related Clues
Blue
Chapfallen
Dejected
Depressed
In the doldrums
Down
Downcast
Elegiac
Glum
Heartsick
Lugubrious
Melancholy
Morose
Mournful
Pathetic
Pitiful
Sorrowful
Sorry
Triste
Unfortunate
Woeful
Wretched
In a blue funk
Bummed out
Down in the dumps
Feeling blue
Kind of iron
Kind of sack
Like one texting :-(
Needing buoying
Not up
Out of spirits
Singing the blues
Like a losing bettor
Like McCuller's cafe
What a texter of ":-(" might be
Definition
SAD as an adjective:
1. experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti
2. of things that make you feel sad; "sad news"; "she doesn't like sad movies"; "it was a very sad story"; "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"- Christina Rossetti
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"