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funky

[fuhng-kee] / ˈfʌŋ ki /
ADJECTIVE
offbeat
Synonyms


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“I’ve been with this show for years in all its different iterations,” Kilgore tells me as we wait for Folger in the theater’s funky, popcorn-scented lobby.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Kulgod's co-founder Itamar Bitan, 28, who spent four years in an Israeli special-forces canine unit, said the dogs were trained using "positive reinforcement" to detect a "specific funky smell" for a reward.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

A funky one hangs in the corner, some simpler ones float above the dark-green tufted couch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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

I say again, cracking up, pounding some crazy bass notes to match the funky treble.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

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

Cheese: Parmigiano-Reggiano is classic, but try Manchego or Pecorino for a funkier edge.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025

It’s a return to their powers, now funkier than ever.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

But this is a looser, funkier show than its inspiration, puncturing the occasionally stifling solemnity of “The Walking Dead” with good old-fashioned B-movie gags and thrills.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 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

The funkiest thing a “radioactive shrimp” would do—that is, if you put a radiation sensor over such a crustacean, says Pillai—is beep.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2025

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

“She was just the funkiest, silliest, most wonderful person,” said Giffen, who remembered talking with Olds about a customer complaint Monday.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2021

Cellphone’s Dead may have Beck’s funkiest bassline, but for brute force, Devil’s Haircut wins with its insistent three-note riff copied from I Can Only Give You Everything by the 60s Northern Irish rockers Them.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2020

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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