dunned

past tense of dun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dunned
Verb
  • Everyone Lee comes into contact with is at minimum annoyed with him most of the time, if not outright hating him.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Keanu, still annoyed from the veto ceremony, talked to Ava Pearl in the HOH room and called Rachel a liar.
    David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Traders worried about inflation tend to pour money in gold, which some believe holds an intrinsic value that hedges against rising prices.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Some scientists worried such accidents might genuinely threaten our existence.
    Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The move irked Republicans in Congress who, in July, moved to ban restoring any Confederate names in this year's defense authorization bill.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The escalation has irked Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who warned on Thursday that his country could not be invaded.
    Nick Mordowanec John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • On television, the film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert structured their show so that at any time at least one of them was likely to be exasperated, possibly with the other one.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Even Yankee great Paul O’Neill, who was on the YES broadcast, was exasperated by Volpe’s decision.
    Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Think flying in spring water to a Caribbean island because a female client thought the local water irritated her scalp.
    Louis J. Esterhazy, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, the aliens take a back seat to the human interactions, which irritated some viewers eager to see actual aliens in a show about an extraterrestrial invasion.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Climate scientists have long been vexed by the disconnect between the dire warnings blared by their models and the restrained policies enacted by world leaders.
    Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • My suggestions are fraught with political landmines that have vexed commissioners dating back to Bowie Kuhn, when the MLBPA gained a hold in the 1960s.
    Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • What particularly riled Kiley this week was that Schiff didn’t stop there.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Like the Bull, Detective Williams gets riled up and sees red when pushed to the limit.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This isn’t the first time that Harry was allegedly peeved because of Meghan’s Netflix show.
    StyleCaster Editors, StyleCaster, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Continue reading … DEMANDING ANSWERS – Top Democrats peeved over $8B Paramount-Skydance merger, citing Trump influence.
    , FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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“Dunned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dunned. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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