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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wack
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As holidays go, however, Flag Day can feel a bit lame.Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2021
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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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Begiristain is being shown up not for signing bad players but for letting the wrong ones leave.Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Ultimately, Yang said, Trump has gotten it all wrong.Aarne Heikkila, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
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Rangers: After winning the Presidents’ Trophy last year, the Rangers viewed a conference final loss to the eventual champions as an unacceptable result.Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
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Given how much aid the United States has already provided to Ukraine, there is not much room for Washington to expand the flow of arms quantitatively, and further qualitative increases would entail unacceptable escalation risks.Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
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His role comes a year after a poor performance in his Madison Square Garden debut just eight games into his NBA career: 14 points on 4-of-14 shooting to go along with nine rebounds and a block.Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 25 Dec. 2024
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As of Tuesday afternoon, a winter weather advisory was in place warning of poor driving conditions in parts of the state.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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Their first tryst starts off like a bad porno with Samuel and Romy improvising a script that feels phony even to them.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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The team has gotten worse as a result of Adams’ offseason moves.Matthew Fairburn, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
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Iron deficiency can definitely cause symptoms—but many of them are so common that they could easily be attributed to other things like not drinking enough water, being deficient in Vitamin B12, or hormonal fluctuations.Christina Pérez, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
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As professional practice and compelling television, the tactic is equally deficient.Alison Herman, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
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Seeing these half a dozen random products shoved in a small paper mailer, everything feels much more pathetic than the pictures online suggested.Mia Sato, The Verge, 19 Dec. 2024
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This type of yellow press is pathetic, and the ongoing media hysteria around AI is an embarrassment to the field of journalism as a profession.Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Despite Fraser Forster making a couple of horrible mistakes in the Carabao Cup quarter-final against Manchester United, then conceding six against Liverpool, the wisest move might be to sign a younger back-up goalkeeper for the long-term.Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
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Specifically, Trump often points to the horrible human costs of the war and indicates a desire to put an end to the fighting as soon as possible.Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Wack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wack. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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