sucking

present participle of suck, informal + sometimes impolite
as in smelling
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 sucking Until then, blood-sucking bat-men were something only Europeans had to worry about, as Dracula and his castle-dwelling kin preyed on hapless villagers half a world away. Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024 The current Magpie wouldn’t get ten steps underground without sucking on a bottle of liquor. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2024 Once, twice… and then her scalp peeled away with a sickening, wet sucking sound. William Earl, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024

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“Sucking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sucking. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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