Thesaurus / flub
FEEDBACKHow to use flub in a sentence
The support he had advanced to the "old flub" he could threaten to withdraw unless the wedding were hastened.
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY?RUPERT HUGHESHe took the same delight in employing them in his works as he did flim-flams, flub-dubs, and catamarans.
EUGENE FIELD, A STUDY IN HEREDITY AND CONTRADICTIONSSLASON THOMPSON"Flip-flop, flippity-floppity-flub" sounded in progression across the living-room floor.
WANTED: A HUSBANDSAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMSWhen a half-grown girl, a half-baked boy, a flub like Mulready—damn his eyes!
THE BLACK BAGLOUIS JOSEPH VANCEAnd all confessed and joined his party, and he was known as the wisest king of the Flub Dubs.
'CHARGE IT'IRVING BACHELLERThen why flub-dub around in this stuff hoping that he'll break up through to let you see where he is?
DAVE DAWSON AT TRUKROBERT SYDNEY BOWENLeave that little boudoir of yours, with its accursed clocks and its heat and its flub-dubbery, and see what is about you!
LONG LIVE THE KINGMARY ROBERTS RINEHARTAll this talk of women themselves becoming modern is so much flub-dub.
CAPTAIN MACEDOINE'S DAUGHTERWILLIAM MCFEESociologic rub-dub I delight to hear; Philosophic flub-dub Titillates my ear.
A LINE-O'-VERSE OR TWOBERT LESTON TAYLORThat chap Dainopoulos was worth a ton of scientific flub-dub about training one's memory.
COMMANDWILLIAM MCFEEWORDS RELATED TO FLUB
- ball up
- blow
- blunder
- bobble
- boggle
- bollix
- boot
- bumble
- bungle
- butcher
- distort
- err
- fall down
- flounder
- flub
- foul up
- fumble
- goof up
- gum up
- make a muck of
- mar
- mend
- mess
- mess up
- misapply
- miscalculate
- miscompute
- misconjecture
- misconstrue
- mishandle
- misjudge
- mismanage
- muck up
- muddle
- muff
- mutilate
- patch
- pull a boner
- ruin
- screw up
- spoil
- stumble
- wreck
- abuse
- be incompetent
- be inefficient
- blow
- blunder
- botch
- bungle
- confound
- err
- flub
- foul up
- fumble
- goof
- goof up
- gum up
- harm
- make a hash of
- make a mess of
- maladminister
- misapply
- misconduct
- misdirect
- misemploy
- misgovern
- mistreat
- misuse
- muff
- overlook
- pervert
- prostitute
- put foot in
- screw up
- shoot oneself in foot
- abuses
- blows
- blunders
- botches
- bungles
- confounds
- errs
- flubs
- foul up
- fumbles
- goof up
- goofs
- gum up
- harms
- is incompetent
- is inefficient
- makes a hash of
- makes a mess of
- maladministers
- misapplies
- misconducts
- misdirects
- misemploys
- misgoverns
- mistreats
- misuses
- muffs
- overlooks
- perverts
- prostitutes
- puts foot in
- screws up
- shoots oneself in foot
- abused
- blew
- blundered
- botched
- bungled
- confounded
- erred
- flubbed
- foul up
- fumbled
- goof up
- goofed
- gum up
- harmed
- made a hash of
- made a mess of
- maladministered
- misapplied
- misconducted
- misdirected
- misemployed
- misgoverned
- mistreated
- misused
- muffed
- overlooked
- perverted
- prostituted
- put foot in
- screwed up
- shot oneself in foot
- was incompetent
- was inefficient
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