How to Use fuckboy in a Sentence

fuckboy

noun
  • No fuckboy could stand a chance, anyway, pitted against Nelson as her backup.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a sensitivity here, even for someone who could (generously) be called a fuckboy.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
  • From there, Wendy ping-pongs between the family-man boyfriend who’s not really her boyfriend at the moment, and the fuckboy former flame who’s no longer quite so former.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Because nothing is more predictable or disappointing than a fuckboy, this move obviously works in under 30 seconds.
    Caroline Framke, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • To me Conrad is wholly fantasy, the dream man for the millions of Gen Z and millennial (and even older) women who have spent their entire lives dating fuckboys in hopes of a prince.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2025
  • That his ascent coincided with the mainstreaming of nerdom and the heyday of the fuckboy was a stroke of luck, but the bassist and singer born Stephen Bruner knows that men’s hypocrisies and failures are timeless fodder for songwriting.
    Daniel Felsenthal, Pitchfork, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Nominees like Jacob Elordi and Kate Hudson are both headed back to their TV day jobs—as wayward fuckboy Nate Jacobs on Euphoria season three (HBO, April 12) and sleek basketball team president Isla Gordon on Running Point season two (Netflix, April 23), respectively.
    Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 16 Mar. 2026

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