Example Sentences

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“The office thing is all buggered up,” says Alison Hirst, a business professor at Anglia Ruskin University in England, who has done case studies of the social dynamics in open offices.

From Scientific American • Mar. 20, 2023

Yeah, there was an awful lot of “Great, you lumbered me with this, and then you buggered off.”

From The Verge • May 30, 2019

Flood-ravaged sugarcane paddocks, pile after roadside pile of everything from barbecues to microwaves to baby strollers to chests of drawers and other buggered stuff.

From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2017

“I just buggered that up,” she shrugged to reporters.

From US News • Jul. 22, 2014

You gave a little nod to the audience and then buggered off.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2012