Crossword-Solution: AMISS 5 letters, 169 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Amiss adv. Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
Amiss a. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be
amiss to ask advice.
Amiss n. A fault, wrong, or mistake.

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AMISS anagram MASIS, MIASS, MISSA, SIMAS

We have 169 clues for the answer “AMISS”

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"If I have done ___, impute it not."—Addison. 1 answer
"Swing and ___!" (strike) 1 answer
"Swing and ___, strike one!" 1 answer
"___ is as good . . . " 1 answer
Awry or fishy 1 answer
Beside the mark. 1 answer
Equal of a mile 1 answer
Equal to a mile 1 answer
Not quite right, in a way 1 answer
Go ___ (err) 1 answer
In a faulty manner. 1 answer
In an incorrect manner 1 answer
It's supposed to equal a mile 1 answer
Just a little off 1 answer
More than fishy 1 answer
Not quite right, and an apt title for this puzzle? 1 answer
Not right somehow 1 answer
OUT of proper order 1 answer
Quid pro quo for a mile 1 answer
Slightly odd 1 answer
Somewhat wrong 1 answer
Suspiciously off 1 answer
Way off the target. 1 answer
Wildly wrong 1 answer
___ is as good as a mile 1 answer
A little fishy 2 answers
It's as good as a mile 2 answers
Not according to plan 2 answers
Not quite correct 2 answers
Off somehow 2 answers
Out of joint 2 answers
untowardly 2 answers
AFOUL 3 answers
Not as it should be 3 answers
Off kilter 4 answers
Gone wrong 4 answers
Not proper 4 answers
Off-target 4 answers
Slightly off 5 answers
Not as expected 5 answers
Not in order 5 answers
Off the beam 5 answers
Off the track 6 answers
OFF! target 6 answers
Somewhat off 7 answers
Off-kilter 7 answers
Wonky 8 answers
A bit off 8 answers
Off-base 8 answers
Out of kilter 9 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AMISS (5)

But that perversity, which all children have more or less of, and of which little Pearl had a tenfold portion, now, at the most inopportune moment, took thorough possession of her, and closed her lips, or impelled her to speak words amiss.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992
Therefore, it was well that Phœbe so often chose sad themes, and not amiss that they ceased to be so sad while she was singing them.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
Whether his meditations on mortality had touched his liver, or whether his general health had been previously at all amiss, or whether he desired to show a little attention to an eminent man, is not so much to the purpose, as that he made a short call upon his medical adviser--a distinguished surgeon--on his way back.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
You have not mentioned to any of the three gentlemen whom you attend that anything is amiss?” “No, sir—not a word.” “You haven’t seen any of them?” “No, sir.” “Very good.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994

Quotes with AMISS (3)

Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion: the desperate letters stuck in the mud of the spirit of rejuvenesence and were worked up by a band of Noble Human-Beings and other riff-raff into highly artistic but inexpensive wall-adornments. Only since then has progress in communications really got into its stride. Who, in the end, is to take it amiss if even the freest of free spirits no …
Theodor W. Adorno Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my foot Than save my Boot --For yet to buy another Pairis possible, At any store -- But Bliss, is sold just once. The Patent lost None buy it any more --
Emily Dickinson I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
I wondered straightaway how he could sit at peace there, of an evening, with the row of heads staring down at him. There were no pictures, no flowers: only the heads of chamois. The concession to melody was the radiogram and the stack of records of classical music. Foolishly, I had asked, "Why only chamois?" He answered at once, "They fear Man." This might have led to an argument about animals in general, domestic, wild, and those which adapt themselves to the whims and vagar…
Daphne du Maurier Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 499 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).