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funk

noun as in fear, depression

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In some ways, this 2020 season, as chaotic as it has become because of the pandemic, has served as an attention-grabbing endeavor for Funk.

Expect to hear vintage funk, deep house, downtempo and Baltimore club bangers — all adding up to the perfect weekend soundtrack, whether you’re on a makeshift dance floor on Friday night or just chilling on your sofa on Wednesday evening.

A saison might showcase a brettanomyces yeast that carries the funk of a barnyard.

Three thousand miles away, news of the project’s approval sent Bill Gow, a cattle rancher from southern Oregon, into a lasting funk.

The slinky funk song playing in my head screeched to a halt.

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But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.

The funk legend treats unsuspecting concertgoers to an impromptu show.

The simultaneously upbeat and sentimental ode to friendship is equal parts funk, trance, pop, and R&B.

But even after the funk of the Bush years dispersed, we were left with a deeper truth.

The soul-funk innovator had some complex and (quite frankly) bizarre political views.

Little time was lost in bringing the doctors—Anderson, of the man-of-war, and his friend Dr. Funk.

While I am by no means prepared to admit that I am what you so pleasingly term "a funk," I readily allow that——'

Suddenly a white funk comes over me and I rush out and into the taxi again.

You seem to be taking things coolly, but I don't mind confessing that I'm in a blessed funk.

The fact is, I let Harry Tristram put me in a funk, you know.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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