suck

informal + sometimes impolite
as in to smell
to be objectionable or unsatisfactory it's amazing that a song that sucks so bad can be so popular

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Recent Examples of suck Looking to give socks that don’t suck this holiday season? Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2022 Carolyn Forté, executive director of the Good Housekeeping Institute's Home Appliances & Cleaning Products Lab, created a printable checklist to make sure keeping the house neat doesn't suck up endless hours of time on weekends anymore. Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2022 And the downpours keep coming, a couple of them a year now where there used to be none, adding moisture that the pumps cannot suck away. Vivian Yee, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022 Ready to kick off spooky season with a vampire series that doesn't suck? Brendan Morrow, The Week, 30 Sep. 2022 See all Example Sentences for suck 

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“Suck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suck. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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