scunnered

chiefly Scottish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for scunnered
Adjective
  • His annoyed expression when your protagonist asks to use the phone will have some underlying reason behind it.
    JD Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Until one day she was interrupted by an annoyed Philip Poole, the head coach of the Ascent.
    Emma Moon, Charlotte Observer, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • It can be used for moisturizing, cleansing, and soothing irritated skin and as a laxative in enemas or suppositories.
    Lauren O'Connor, Health, 2 Sep. 2025
  • People tended to be somewhat irritated at this lack of contextual capability.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite his status as a pop culture icon for close to 50 years now, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic has claimed he’s not terribly bothered about being overlooked by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
    Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2025
  • When taking a deeper look at what causes Americans to feel bothered about protesters waving Mexican flags, some clear patterns emerge.
    Loren Collingwood, The Conversation, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • Joining them and co-creators Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory and Frida Perez in the writers’ room for Season 2 is Sarah Polley, following her guest stint playing herself as an exasperated director in Season 1.
    Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Reprising his role as the exasperated accountant, Oscar (played by actor Oscar Nunez) wants no part in the crew’s latest project.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • One unbearable sequence has Chiang coming back angry in the middle of the day and suddenly raping Chuan in their bedroom.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In late July, centrist independent US Senator Angus King released a startlingly angry statement.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There have been some instances, however, when an upset crayfish comes home from a hard day of crayfishing only to have to kick out a frog and cap the burrow.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, for an AI that claims someone is going into something bad, but the AI has computationally misjudged the circumstance, users are bound to howl and get upset with the AI and the AI maker.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Scunnered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scunnered. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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