sucks

/ (sʌks) /

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interjection slang

an expression of disappointment

an exclamation of defiance or derision (esp in the phrase yah boo sucks to you)

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How to use sucks in a sentence

“It really sucks to be in your younger twenties,” Colfer told Esquire.
Chris Colfer on Writing, Acting, and the Pain of Being A Pop Culture Trailblazer|Oliver Jones|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Republicans need to rebuild their brand, which Rand Paul said quite graphically “sucks.”
Can Obama and a Republican Senate Find Common Ground?|Eleanor Clift|November 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The false assumption that everything sucks now, and that everything was better way back when?
The Director Isn’t Done Yet: An Interview With Steven Soderbergh|Andrew Romano|August 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Today, she takes the formula from me and sucks down every last drop of liquid like a desert-thirsty nomad.
When An Adopted Child Won’t Attach|Tina Traster|May 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Or to put it another if equally inadequate way: Whatever comes next, sucks.
Comedy Is His Calling: The Brilliance of Billy Crystal|Tom Shales|April 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Verily, there is not a leech that sucks out the blood from the body more than these little ships do this camp of men.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
But like the bee, while impelled by an instinct that makes it search for sugar, it sucks in therewith its solid sustenance.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
A Laplander who cannot get Tobacco sucks chips of a barrel or pieces of anything else which has contained it.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
It appears probable, therefore, that the young elephant sucks with his trunk only.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Thus the elephant neither sucks, eats, or drinks, like other quadrupeds.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

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