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as in cowards
a person who shows a shameful lack of courage in the face of danger
denounced as curs those police officers who deserted their posts during the hurricane and its aftermath
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as in bastards
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
only a cur would abandon friends in their time of need
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Recent Examples of curs
Since switching to bears, Propst and Starks have accumulated a sound, reliable pack of bear dogs-redbones, Walkers, mountain curs and black-and-tans.
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John McCoy, Outdoor Life, 12 Nov. 2025
John McCoy, Outdoor Life, 12 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for curs
Noun
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These are American cowards that are rooting against our Country.—
Khaled Wassef,
CBS News,
13 May 2026
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And Trump calls ’em almost like cowards.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
12 May 2026
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The 10-week-old Boxer has since been treated for Parvovirus — a highly contagious and potentially fatal viral illness that primarily affects young puppies and unvaccinated dogs — in the organization's specialized ICU and is available for adoption at the Sunnyslope Campus in Phoenix.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
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Dog dumping has become such a problem that the Hartford Animal Shelter in partnership with the Hartford Police Department said it may be forced to start euthanizing healthy dogs as the shelter reaches capacity.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
8 June 2026
Noun
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To relitigate the matter on behalf of Musk only served to underline the conviction that all of these jerks deserved one another.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
20 May 2026
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Here, witches are real — and so are jerks.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Grotesque sea hags, killer clowns, demonic self-help books and more plague the town and its mayor, Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys).—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2026
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The four paintings are Joan Miró’s Composition (1953), Maurice Utrillo’s Maison de rendez-vous de chasse de Henri IV, rue Saint-Vincent, Montmartre (1934), Balthus’s Etude pour femme couchée (1948), and Pablo Picasso’s L’Ecuyere et les clowns (1961).—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
6 May 2026
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Around ponds, frogs and toads will be eaten, and when worms emerge after rainfall, skunks will eagerly feed on those.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 June 2026
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Things start with dead skunks in a pool and only get (far, far) worse from there.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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That’s happened in several Mid Atlantic rivers, but in the absence of larger brutes like blues and flathead, channels will thrive and can break the 15-pound mark.—
Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
9 Apr. 2026
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In Raspail’s tale, hordes of impoverished and dark-skinned brutes from India descend onto French shores by way of rafts, the first wave of an invasion of the civilized West by the brown-skinned developing world.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Curs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curs. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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