maffick

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Verb
  • Those who wish to revel without reservation in good feelings about their country feel threatened by those who note the tragedies and oppression that lay at the heart of this period.
    ANNETTE GORDON-REED, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
  • And there are the neighbors who revel at the many nicknames coined for the spot.
    Lauren Brensel, Sun Sentinel, 17 July 2025
Verb
  • Many foreign attendees at San Fermín have no stomach for the spectacle and spend their early evenings carousing in local bars instead.
    Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
  • These increasingly crazed visitors spend their days lazing on the shore, drinking and eating, carousing with prostitutes, and abusing Rosa (played by B-movie actress Leonora Fani, who would also star in the equally notorious vacation film Giallo in Venice) for their own entertainment.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • While capering around with her boss, Matty keeps looking for a private moment alone with Olympia’s luggage.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
  • While capering around with her boss, Matty keeps looking for a private moment alone with Olympia’s luggage.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • In response to the roaring fans, the singer made sure to put them front and center.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2025
  • The highlight was a 540-foot rocket, on June 5, 1967, that roared over the most distant sign atop the roof of Philadelphia’s old Connie Mack Stadium in the deepest part of left-center field.
    Jayson Stark, New York Times, 27 July 2025
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  • As a member of the gentry, Thomas is crossing class lines by cavorting with the fishermen who work for his father-in-law.
    B. Pietras June 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
  • Inevitably, the moment that Margarita spies a hobby horsing class cavorting around a room in the local middle school will likely have a profound effect on the film’s audience.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 June 2025
Verb
  • Scottie Scheffler romped to a magnificent four-shot victory to seal his first British Open title at Royal Portrush on Sunday, notching his fourth major success.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 July 2025
  • Strasburg won a franchise-record 14 straight decisions and is the first NL starter to begin a season 11-0 since San Diego’s Andy Hawkins in 1985. 2016 — Wilmer Flores went 6 for 6 with two of New York’s five home runs, and the Mets romped to a 14-3 win and a four-game sweep of the Chicago Cubs.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
Verb
  • An escaped pet zebra that went on the lam in Tennessee was captured Sunday after gamboling in the forest for more than a week.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 8 June 2025
  • The dire wolves known to paleontologists, however, are different from the creatures that can now be viewed in Colossal videos gamboling in an open field.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Dugan was soon frisked and handcuffed with her hands behind her back and led to a waiting car.
    Cary Spivak, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025
  • The class-action suit covers men and nonbinary people who attended the events, paid full price and were frisked dating back to April 2015.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2025
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“Maffick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maffick. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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