The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word AMISS
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What does AMISS mean?
AMISS noun- Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
- Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.
- Wrongly.
- Mistakenly.
- Astray.
- Imperfectly.