Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preterit and past participle of stink.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
stink .
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- verb Past participle of
stink
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Examples
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He did not use the word "stunk"; he used a vulgar expression that cannot be repeated on the blog of a family newspaper.
NYT > Home Page By STUART ELLIOTT 2011
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The arguments for government sponsored bailouts stunk from the beginning; and the results we are getting haven't changed that.
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We stunk from the start of the game to the end of the game.
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Kat was my kitten whose name stunk in our nostrils? '
Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906
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The reality is that, despite the fact that you thought it was a great idea, the idea stunk!
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Second, you are a meanie...well sort of, I know that I have looked ahead in a race and just thought "Oh I can pick it up just a little to beat the man in the blue shirt" and it feels so good to have that small victory even if you kind of stunk up the whole race.
I'm a meanie... Matthew Buckley 2008
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And for the most part, I kind of stunk up the joint.
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Lester said his start "stunk," which is fair enough.
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"The first inning kind of stunk," Sheets admitted.
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"From the beginning, I've thought that the deal Goldman Sachs got via Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on their bad bets through AIG kind of stunk," DeFazio says.
Articles on National Review Online Robert Costa 2010
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