dunned

verb

past tense of dun
as in annoyed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dunned
  1. annoyed
  2. worried
  3. irked
  4. exasperated
  5. irritated
  6. vexed
  7. riled
  8. hassled
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  • Coach Rhett Lashlee was already annoyed with special teams coming into the game, and that was before the Mustangs botched two PAT attempts.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Those are the fans who have a right to be annoyed about their team having won as many World Series in the last quarter-century as the White Sox.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of annoyed
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  • At a True Texas Project meeting earlier this month, O’Hare was sounding the alarms, worried about the safety of his seat.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2026
  • When spreadsheets arrived in the 1980s, people worried accountants would become obsolete.
    — Mary Moreland, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of worried
Verb
  • The perception surely irked a man who was just following organizational advice, but Claire never backed down from his role in the deal.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
  • But the ones that irked Cristobal the most came before plays even began.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of irked
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  • The drug dilemma Don Moulds sounds exasperated when talking about prescription drugs, which have been political fuel for more than a decade.
    — Bob Herman, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
  • When Caleb Hammer, a thirty-one-year-old personal-finance YouTuber, gets particularly exasperated, his voice enters a shrill upper register.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of exasperated
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  • The episode confused and irritated the Red Sox, and following Saturday’s win starting pitcher Sonny Gray acknowledged that Alexander’s antics had provided the club with extra motivation.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The comments irritated Ilicali, who took to social media in response.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of irritated
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  • While the state leans left, and hasn't voted for a Republican presidential candidate statewide since the 1980s, Collins' history of surviving tough reelection challenges has vexed Democrats for more than a decade.
    — Senior Editor, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The Dolphins’ third-down snaps vexed the Chiefs most of the afternoon.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of vexed
Verb
  • Sydney Sweeney has riled up some leading female athletes with her risqué ad campaign for Novig, the sports betting platform.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Township officials accused me of a power grab and riled up the local township boards, which came out en masse.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of riled
Verb
  • In the ad, Piven pulls up to a Miami mansion party in a sports car and is hassled by a bouncer.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Each presents a group portrait of a handful of disaffected British suburbanites—husbands who resent their deadening jobs, toddlers who whine and interrupt, and, above all, hassled wives subsumed by a crush of household obligations.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of hassled
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“Dunned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dunned. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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