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Recent Examples of locker-room Smelly Shoes If your closet or mudroom has developed a certain locker-room quality, your shoes may be the culprit. Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025 Read: Sophie Gilbert on the dark teen show that pushes the edge of provocation Euphoria was provocative to a fault—one locker-room montage featuring more than a dozen full-frontal penises felt more like a challenge to find premium cable’s limits than a coherent piece of storytelling. Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025 Some people are forthright when Boulet asks, with a cameraman in tow, a question that is often not spoken, or at most in a locker-room whisper. The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025 The allegations at Oregon included berating players during practices and after games, and throwing and kicking objects during locker-room tirades. Michael Nowels, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for locker-room
Recent Examples of Synonyms for locker-room
Adjective
  • The survey examined a minimum of 1,000 comments per team and found less than 1% of posts made by fans of the Dallas Wings contained swear words or vulgar comments.
    Alyssa Cooper, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 May 2025
  • The program was incredibly close-knit—kids practiced most days of the week, and hung out almost exclusively with their fellow All-Stars, as well as with the vulgar, charismatic teacher who structured their lives.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 3 May 2025
Adjective
  • Venis’s obscene wealth justifies an unbridled narcissism that reflects our worst fears of tech moguls.
    Andrew Wallenstein, Variety, 28 May 2025
  • In December 2014, a jury convicted Magnotta of first-degree murder, committing an indignity to a human body, publishing obscene material and mailing obscene and indecent material.
    Jessica Sager, People.com, 25 May 2025
Adjective
  • Detroit Tigers outfielder Riley Greene slid into foul territory down the left-field line in pursuit of Chase Meidroth’s third-inning fly ball, then disappeared in a cloud of dust.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
  • Then, Muncy went deep again, continuing his recent surge by belting another three-run homer high off the right-field foul pole, tying a career-high with seven RBIs on the day.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2025
Adjective
  • Well, as referenced above, the United States was coming out of a nasty recession tied to the crisis in the mortgage market.
    Ken Roberts, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • But many of those story beats feel perfunctory; the film comes to life in the nastier, grislier set pieces.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • Martin Kove as John Kreese Martin Kove played John Kreese, Johnny's karate mentor, who encourages his students to play dirty and harass Daniel.
    Keith Langston, People.com, 1 June 2025
  • Shoes and Accessories Between the dust and the lack of sidewalks, your shoes will get dirty.
    Isis Briones, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • The law specifically spells out heating problems, pest infestations and filthy conditions as among the issues that could require a court’s intervention.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 30 May 2025
  • Detectives have criminally charged the owner of nearly 50 Belgian Malinois dogs that were found trapped together in a cramped, filthy Queens apartment, police said Wednesday.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • That in itself is a valuable tool for a defenseman: being able to skate the puck into the neutral zone and then make a clean first pass to get the offensive process started.
    Max Bultman, New York Times, 1 June 2025
  • But in a ceaseless offensive onslaught in the opening two innings on Saturday, things seemed to suddenly, profoundly and perhaps permanently change.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2025

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“Locker-room.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locker-room. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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