sucking

verb

Definition of suckingnext
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 At the dock, a fish pump, which works like a giant vacuum tube, was sucking the fish out of the hold. — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026 Deadline has established that several top producers have declined to throw their hat into the ring, with many citing concerns about the lack of rights and the production contract sucking creative energy away from other projects. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026 Not to mention, nobody wants to live near the enormous, noisy, resource-sucking data centers required to make this technology run. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2026 But these middlemen have become bipartisan punching bags, accused of sucking up profits at the expense of employers, governments, and patients. — Blake Farmer, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026 Both skeletons had deep rounded grooves in their teeth, apparently caused by constantly sucking on whole betel nuts. — ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026 The power of prediction markets derives precisely from sucking our attention toward what’s speculable—incentivizing the networked crowd to separate signal from noise at scale. — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026 But Ward also faces the risk of developing bad habits and seeing transgressions snowball while sucking the life out of his team. — Mike Jones, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2026 The Yes campaign’s website argues CEQA contributes to the state’s cost-of-living challenges by driving up mortgage rates, rents and sucking up tax dollars. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sucking
  1. smelling
  2. biting
Verb
  • This extends the concept beyond smelling an object remotely toward recreating aspects of a drinking experience.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
  • But the idea of smelling like Dove soap didn’t appeal to me right off the bat.
    — James Manso, Allure, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of smelling
Verb
  • The question now is whether shoppers counting every dollar will keep paying for products like cashmere-soft diapers once the novelty fades and if inflation keeps biting.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Yoko said her daughter simply tried to prevent an agitated resident from biting others by putting her hand around the person’s chin.
    — Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of biting

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“Sucking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sucking. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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