bum out
Example Sentences
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Those games still can end in a tie, unlike with college football, which spent its first 126 years allowing ties, which would bum out everyone.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2021
You can throw the bum out and put yourself in an apartment and terminally poor for the rest of your life to "teach him" that it was a horrible thing to do.
From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2017
The solution still involved an arched back to keep the bum out, but the pivot point was more central and thus more flexible.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2012
Note that the animated sequels, which usually cost hundreds of millions to produce, are among the worst performers; that has to bum out the folks at Pixar and DreamWorks.
From Time • Dec. 18, 2011
I'll never get to throw the bum out.
From Slate • Jan. 19, 2011
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
