queered

Definition of queerednext
past tense of queer

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for queered
Verb
  • After users online and public figures rushed to show solidarity to Miss Mexico, who many felt had been publicly humiliated, the Thai executive came out to apologize.
    Paula Soria, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • No woman, under any circumstance, deserves to be insulted or humiliated.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The country’s property market has been stuck in a yearslong downturn that’s dented the need for copper plumbing and wiring, while consumer spending has been sluggish, weighing on appetite for finished goods such as electronic appliances.
    Bloomberg, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Any short-term market reaction to spending plans, and any selling that is predicated on a current quarter earnings shortfall or market fears that the next quarter's earnings will be dented, are reasons for a long-term investor to buy.
    Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • And when placed counter to men in power, we’re shamed; just take the long-overdue imprisonment of Diddy and the public vitriol towards his female victims.
    Essence, Essence, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Kirk’s former chief of staff Mikey McCoy shamed Cohen for the comments in a post on X early Thursday morning.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the show has hosted plenty of controversial musical performances, such as NBC removing upside-down American flags from Rage Against the Machine’s amps in 1996 to Ashlee Simpson’s botched vocal performance in 2004.
    William Earl, Variety, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Made all the worse, that final play by Miami was botched by a mistake that led to the pickoff.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Within this world no others exist, except as things to be debased.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Dogville, from 2003, is an experimental Lars von Trier film shot on a stage set in which Kidman plays a woman debased and abused by the inhabitants of a small town.
    Wendell Steavenson, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Denver police are searching for suspects in a Saturday night parking lot shooting that killed a 16-year-old and wounded three men, at least one of whom is not expected to survive, according to the agency.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Each of the 29 counts corresponds to a child who was killed or wounded in the classrooms, prosecutors said.
    Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 6 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Wallin points out that half of the world’s GDP, amounting to $44 trillion, is directly dependent on nature, yet the essential systems that support economic stability continue to be degraded.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Ancient samples, degraded over centuries, often contain fragments too small for PCR to amplify.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Catherine’s right leg was lacerated to the bone and nearly amputated by a propeller.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Queered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queered. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.

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