dunned

Definition of dunnednext
past tense of dun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dunned
Verb
  • The platform’s staff has seemed minorly annoyed at the shots Denk and others at Beehiiv have taken as Substack has moved from disruptor to incumbent.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • One who grew up respectful but annoyed by the success the league previously had in Seattle.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Sheehy encouraged anyone worried about pacemakers to consider using the devices.
    Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Armstrong worried that something simmered between Moriah and her longtime boyfriend Colin Strickland, whom Armstrong lived with.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • What irked her most was the foregone futility of the day.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • SpaceX’s argument irked some critics, who say the company did nothing to address their concerns.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • In the meantime, Jones was stranded on an island of his own making Saturday, exasperated by another difficult game-winning shot that his wingspan was somehow helpless to affect on its own.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Gross, arms in the air in the third image below, was exasperated, but Kadioglu takes the blame for that hold-up.
    Stuart James, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Even minimal exposure to artificial lights irritated his burns, and recovery took months.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Many people have come out of the woodwork and jumped on the bandwagon, which irritated me.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Siblings are rich terrain for fiction precisely because they are so vexed—a pressure point where the imperative to create a singular hero meets the desire to imagine new forms of connection.
    Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Some feel vexed by a whole host of things, including style of play, fanbase, history, managers, players, owners, financial might or, in City’s case, the pending Premier League charges.
    Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • April Fools' Day was a thing back then, too — and of course, other fanciful stories that might have gotten Chicagoans riled up have turned up since.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • While two sources say Sarandos was riled to hear about this during a chance encounter with a Penguin executive, a Netflix insider says the Co-CEO never met anyone at the publishing house regarding the book.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Accompanied by her young son Israel, Owens went across the street to Lorincz's residence that evening to retrieve a tablet Israel claimed that Lorincz, who'd repeatedly hassled and called the police on the neighborhood children for years, had stolen from him.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The police hassled him and other migrant workers.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2022
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“Dunned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dunned. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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