funky

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Recent Examples of funky Walls were painted in funky neons and decorated with faux ivy. John McDermott, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025 So all the pieces were real, but it was incorporated in kind of a funky way. EW.com, 19 June 2025 The funky shift controller is now replaced by pushbuttons below the center vents. Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025 Alice’s Adventure Alice’s Adventure reimagines the classic tale through a Halloween lens, fusing funky patterns, surrealist details, and pops of blood red and sky blue. Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for funky
Recent Examples of Synonyms for funky
Adjective
  • While most players at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship are battling the Texas heat, slow play, and a demanding Fields Ranch East layout, Leona Maguire is dealing with something far more bizarre—tick bites!
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
  • The bizarre mix of world football and American football was once again clashing early in the game.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • This is a fruit ripe for picking and every investor, private-equity firm and sovereign wealth fund looking for a prize asset in the world’s most popular domestic football league has kicked the tyres at Spurs, taken the tour and run the numbers.
    Matt Slater, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • If the leaf comes out with minimal resistance, the fruit is probably ripe.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 22 June 2025
Adjective
  • There’s definitely something funny going on with the Universe.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2025
  • McGrath's older brother and two of her younger sisters described her as funny, sarcastic, full of life and so caring that the homeless in her neighborhood greeted her by name.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • This is about a team with a top-10 payroll whose GM committed too stinking much of it to dogs that can’t, or won’t, pull the sled.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Muttaiah said the man inside the stinking manhole was working without any safety equipment — no gloves, no shoes, no supplemental oxygen.
    Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
Adjective
  • The Dominican Republic had a moment of its own to celebrate in the 51st minute, though its first-ever Gold Cup goal came in strange circumstances.
    Jon Arnold, New York Times, 15 June 2025
  • New York seems to be working with the impression that Kidd won't be available, but stranger things have happened before.
    Matt Levine, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 June 2025
Adjective
  • According to research from Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for gun control, strong gun control laws are correlated with fewer gun deaths.
    Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
  • This results in a charge imbalance that builds up an electric field strong enough to trigger flashes of lightning.
    National Geographic, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • More Getty Images Adam Scott's weird practice round revealed As Scott prepares for the final showdown, a viral video has added much more interest in his golf swing.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 June 2025
  • Plus there are the weird noises coming from a locked backroom upstairs.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2025
Adjective
  • All the juicy — and disgusting — details of each inspection can be found in a PDF embedded under each restaurant’s entry.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 15 June 2025
  • War is disgusting, and that extraordinary chapter, which concluded what was undoubtedly the most terrible war in history, provides no exception ...
    Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 12 June 2025

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“Funky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funky. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.

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