slang
as in lame
falling short of a standard that movie was wack, even by the standards of popcorn flicks

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Recent Examples of wack That guessing game isn’t great when too much melatonin can lead to fatigue, dizziness, and confusion, among other wack side effects. Ali Finney, SELF, 19 Apr. 2024 Nathan Fielder Is Keeping It Real Nathan Fielder was pretty wack this week on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023 Lillard couldn’t be both the good locker room guy and try to get his wack teammates shipped out of town. Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023 Tenant shall refrain from posting aggressive notes in building common areas about the wack job in Apartment 2B. Sam Spero, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023 When retrograde is in full swing everything is out of wack, so this is a good way to keep things straight. Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023 As can be surmised all are certainly wack, but none so much as the original, the video for which finds Banks sprawled on zebra-skin blanket, texting on an iPhone 2, batting broken raps around like cats do half-dead mice. Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 22 Aug. 2023 Unseemly gloom is really wack. Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021 My son can't have a wack rapper dad. Alexandra Hurtado, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
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  • As holidays go, however, Flag Day can feel a bit lame.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2021
  • My 11-year-old loved watching the pups roll balls and play a giant floor piano, but for non-dog owners (guilty as charged), parts of the series—like dressing dogs in little hats and outfits for a Parisian fashion show—feel lame.
    Tim Neville, Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2020
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  • This should not have been a problem as such, but not every country switches DST at the same time, meaning that when 70 countries change to daylight saving time and 125 don’t, 64% of time zone indications will be wrong.
    Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
  • While his mom and dad knew something was wrong, doctors said Elijah was fine — then he was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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  • And there's a lengthy list of unacceptable offenses that can get people ejected or even banned from venues.
    Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Zelenskyy expressed concern over potential pressure on Ukraine should Donald Trump win the presidency, stating that any attempt to force it to surrender its territories would be unacceptable.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Trump, for one thing, had a favorable set of issues behind him and the Republican Party: Biden had seen poor favorability and approval ratings throughout his term in office, despite scoring several legislative wins, including a bipartisan infrastructure deal that had previously eluded Trump.
    Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Apparently, my daughter didn’t finish all of the food on her plate, and the mom felt that was incredibly rude and a sign of poor manners.
    Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
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  • Zach Wilson’s younger brother settled in as the game progressed, but then threw a bad INT in the fourth to end Utah’s comeback attempt.
    Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
  • As the screw twists and turns, the Broken Rock, led on the show by the Chairman Thomas Rainwater, find themselves on both the dealing and receiving ends of bad land deals and villainous behavior from local and out-of-state actors.
    Ryleigh Nucilli, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
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  • This Tuesday's particular presidential election is also the most important election of our lifetimes for a simple additional reason: Harris is the most ideologically left-wing, intellectually deficient, and wildly unprepared presidential candidate in the nation's history.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In the early seventies, when addicts were viewed as criminals or morally deficient, Gruppo Abele became a nonjudgmental refuge for homeless people and juvenile offenders.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
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  • The upcoming sequel to This Is Spinal Tap will be turning the pathetic knobs all the way to 11.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • After a downright pathetic few weeks, the Russians regrouped—or at least got regrouped enough.
    Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Give Back To Maui After the horrible 2023 wildfires in Maui, The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua reopened on October 8, 2023, and it’s been going strong and welcoming guests with open arms since then.
    Robin Raven, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This is also a great matchup against a horrible Jaguars passing defense.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024

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

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