funky
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The result is something between an aromatic fritter and a funky soufflé.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Though Root did at least allow Tongue three slips and two leg slips for his hat-trick ball after tea, he stuck with three for the most part here and barely ventured into the funky.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Located just over an hour away from his Malibu Colony retreat, the funky dwelling, which is set on 5.7 acres, has a total of five bedrooms and five bathrooms.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
We hear the underdog aesthetic term rasquachismo used to describe these early impromptu performances: essentially a colorful funkiness, “so funky that nothing can undermine you,” Valdez says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Hina is ten years younger than Mom, has short hair, a zillion funky pairs of eyeglasses, is this amazing graphic designer and cool in ways I can only aspire to.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
The creamier, funkier and warmer the brie, the better.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
While the exterior features a very traditional red brick façade, the interior follows a much funkier black-and-white theme that carries throughout the majority of the main living spaces.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
It’s a return to their powers, now funkier than ever.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2024
When the songs were … funkier — and I use that designation extremely loosely — his performance felt more full.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
He released his latest track Heatwave in February, which his label describes as a "piano house" with "funkier UK" influences.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2022
Robertson’s lyrics are teasingly playful but they’re nearly overshadowed by a lithe clavinet part by Hudson that places the song among the funkiest records by a rock band in the late 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
This time it concerns the funkiest Triple Crown season yet hatched and whether a potential Triple Crown winner ought to get listed forever with the spriggy little dot.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2020
Headon’s killer drum intro fires one of the rhythm section’s funkiest grooves.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2020
Los Angeles’ funkiest rapper/singer/drummer is riding high on the heels of two new albums infusing contemporary West Coast hip-hop with vintage sunny-day soul — with April’s “Ventura” faring considerably better than the uneven “Oxnard.”
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2019
Morality is mostly funk, and I think you’re the funkiest man I ever came across in my travels.
From Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad
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