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funkiest

  • superlative
    of funky.
    funky
    adjective
    overcome with great fear; terrified.

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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

Owner Scott Behrens, who’s helmed one of Seattle’s funkiest music spaces for the past 15 years, had been trying to sell the Lo-Fi and even had a buyer lined up.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

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