chiefly Scottish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wud
Adjective
  • Don’t be mad, and don’t try to hold them back with guilt.
    Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Karl turned on the headlights and got the windshield wipers going at a mad slap.
    Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Continue reading … ORWELL NIGHTMARE – Joe Rogan blasts 'insane' media silence on arrests for social media posts.
    , FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The queen greeted this insane question with a politely regal stare, ignored my faux pas, and continued talking about financial inclusion.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Names and backstories are different, but in Pynchon’s text, stoner pianist Zoyd Wheeler is taking odd jobs and government disability checks obtained by staging regular psychotic episodes, when federal agent Brock Vond drives him and his 14-year-old daughter Prairie from their home.
    Rory Doherty, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Lockjaw is Bob's psychotic, longtime nemesis, who is obsessed with finding him and his daughter.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For a guy like Bryan, who was still in the Navy four years ago and was playing small clubs as late as 2022, crazy indeed.
    Joel Hoard, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2025
  • This crowd was crazy, an away game, a great defense playing.
    Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This recipe piles them on, casting apples — which are starting to appear at farmers markets — and nuts front and center as main characters supported by a chorus of greens.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Lifting the lid revealed a small tart topped with a tongue of Spanish sea urchin, resting on a nubbly bed of cancha nuts.
    Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Wud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wud. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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