Crossword-Solution: REMISS 6 letters, 50 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Remiss a. Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or
prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy;
behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity;
languid; slow.
Remiss n. The act of being remiss; inefficiency; failure.

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We have 50 clues for the answer “REMISS”

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Unduly lenient 1 answer
Diligent? No way 1 answer
Doing a lousy job 1 answer
Guilty of neglect 1 answer
Hardly diligent 1 answer
Lax in duty 1 answer
Neglecting one's duties 1 answer
Not diligent 1 answer
Negligent in some duty. 1 answer
Shirking one's duties 1 answer
Hardly hardworking 2 answers
Asleep in a way 2 answers
Not careful 5 answers
Not paying attention 5 answers
Asleep at the switch 8 answers
BE DELINQUENT 9 answers
CHARACTERIZED BY CARELESS UNCONCERN 10 answers
BE CARELESS 11 answers
CARELESS MISTAKES 11 answers
ANY OLD WAY 15 answers
BE inattentive 16 answers
dilatory 33 answers
COMING late 33 answers
Behindhand. 34 answers
Lackadaisical 37 answers
sluttish 39 answers
failing in duty 39 answers
orgiastic 40 answers
failed 45 answers
in error 46 answers
irresponsible 47 answers
Loafing 48 answers
chargeable 51 answers
neglecting 53 answers
Mistaken 53 answers
Laggard 54 answers
Neglectful 54 answers
frowzy 56 answers
thoughtless 60 answers
forgetful 60 answers
Lazy 62 answers
Delinquent 63 answers
Lax 63 answers
Superficial 64 answers
Negligent 64 answers
Derelict 64 answers
inattentive 75 answers
Slack 76 answers
Careless 83 answers
failure 86 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REMISS (5)

Deliverer from new Lords, leader to free Enjoyment of our right as Gods; yet hard For Gods, and too unequal work we find Against unequal armes to fight in paine, Against unpaind, impassive; from which evil Ruin must needs ensue; for what availes Valour or strength, though matchless, quelld with pain Which all subdues, and makes remiss the hands Of Mightiest.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
She had been often remiss, her conscience told her so; remiss, perhaps, more in thought than fact; scornful, ungracious.
Emma Jane Austen 1994
She hated the Guards, whom she thought conceited, and she could not trust herself to speak of their ladies, who were so remiss in calling.
The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham 1995
All at once we heard the crow of a cock coming up with preternatural shrillness through the clear morning air; Count Dracula, jumping to his feet, said:-- “Why, there is the morning again! How remiss I am to let you stay up so long.
Dracula Bram Stoker 1995
And if they find any person sick of the infection, to give order to the constable that the house be shut up; and if the constable shall be found remiss or negligent, to give present notice thereof to the alderman of the ward.
A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe 1995

Quotes with REMISS (3)

Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone! To be remiss is to be positively out in the country! What a refuge it is to be completely unreliable! I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me. I missed them all, through deliberate negligence, Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come. I’m free, and against organized, clothed society. I’m naked and plunge into the water of my imagination. It’s too late to be at either of the two me…
Fernando Pessoa Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems
Dear Charles, she wrote. After writing to express my appreciation for all the generosity of our friends, I would be remiss indeed if I did not include a missive to you. Out of all the new blessings in my new life, the one I thank God for the most is you. I thank you for writing to me through Genteel Correspondence, and for choosing me out of all the other women eager for adventure in the wild west. I thank you for your kindness, and your gentleness toward me. Only very strong…
Jan Holly Marriage by Mail
I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all.
Alice Munro
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 139 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).