The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word RUES
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More clues leading to the result RUES
- Is sorry about deception auditor’s picked up
- French ways to express regrets
- Herbs: bases for sauces, say
- Is sorry for heartless controls
- Regrets ways in 11
- Tours streets — and wishes one hadn’t?
- Regrets controls, a Liberal gone astray
- Is sorry to announce hoax
- Regrets deception on the radio
- Is sorry to say it’s a ploy
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What does RUES mean?
RUES verb- To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
- To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
- To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.
- To feel compassion or pity.
- To feel sorrow or regret.
- Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.