larruping

dialect

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for larruping
Adjective
  • The latest acceleration of price increases comes at a wobbly moment for the nation's economy.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • With center Jake Brendel missing his first start in 3 ½ seasons, and with all due respect to Matt Hennessy’s fill-in potential, Williams must anchor and lead the 49ers’ wobbly offensive line more than ever.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Where Aytaç was large but poised, Abdi was insubstantial, scrawny, and unsteady on his feet.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • If something feels unsteady or on shaky ground, it will be revealed — not to break you, but to rebuild something stronger.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • These movies—including the seven-hour-long Sátántangó, a centerpiece of which is a shambling dance in a barroom—often swap the meandering sentence for a single camera shot that lasts 10 minutes or more.
    Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Once the beyond-the-grave comeuppance arrives, this short is just standard shambling ghouls and raining blood.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The contrast with Durant’s lumpish Johnny makes no sense.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Because both actors look like lumpish proletarian versions of Ingmar Bergman stars — Alma Pöysti, radiant yet benumbed, plays Ansa like a dish-towel Bibi Andersson, and Jussi Vatanen could be the schlump brother of Max von Sydow (with a dollop of Ryan Gosling).
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 May 2023
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“Larruping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/larruping. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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