scunner

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scunner
Noun
  • Too many of you are more concerned with being polite and *appearing* to be good people rather than showing some damn backbone and standing on principal (sic) to condemn hate.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Trail of clues This incident has striking similarities with past hate acts in France.
    Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Cornell students, alumni and other Reddit users have largely expressed their distaste for the incident.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • At a single, two-minute dinner, Hermann Kafka smashes a cockroach while denigrating his son’s engagement to Felice Bauer before reiterating his distaste for Franz’s writing.
    Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Local Housing Restrictions Could Have National Political Impacts Opposition to private market-rate housing development remains strong among some progressives in New York, Los Angeles, and other cities, rooted in distrust and dislike of for-profit developers.
    Richard McGahey, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Clifton Powell has once again spoken candidly about his issues with Spike Lee, doubling down on past remarks while stressing that his criticism is rooted in business and not personal dislike.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Our lives are a tenuous balance between living in the world—embracing it—and living in fear of its lethality and indifference.
    Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Many of the deaths were preventable and due to a combination of staff incompetence and cruel indifference.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Scunner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scunner. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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