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Antonyms for funk
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  1. funk, blue funknoun

    a state of nervous depression

    "he was in a funk"

    Synonyms:
    blue funk

  2. Funk, Casimir Funknoun

    United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)

    Synonyms:
    blue funk

  3. funkverb

    an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar

    Synonyms:
    blue funk

  4. flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quailverb

    draw back, as with fear or pain

    "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

    Synonyms:
    rebound, cower, bound, shrivel up, reverberate, quail, shrink, flinch, shrivel, grovel, spring, ricochet, kick back, cringe, take a hop, wither, backfire, bounce, backlash, resile, reduce, wince, kick, recoil, squinch, creep, crawl, squint, contract, fawn

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  1. funknoun

    Synonyms:
    recoiling, flinching, shirk, coward

  2. funkverb

    Synonyms:
    stink, flinch, recoil, shrink back

How to use funk in a sentence?

  1. Danny Turner:

    Chipotle has this fierce, fierce sense of independence to them, you're going to hear some some fantastic Ethiopian funk up against a blues tune, up against a Reggae joint. It's really a great mixture.

  2. Brothers Johnson:

    I had access to all musicians and artists, from Barbra Streisand to Paul McCartney to Michael Jackson, it was like an open door. The Lord blessed me with that — I prayed to God and my prayer he answered. He said, 'OK, you got the whole world now.' Every time I'd get in the car to go somewhere, I'd hear me playing the bass ... I was all over the place. I released the funk on everybody.

  3. Lawrence Jones:

    There's so much heavy stuff going on in the world, but we also want to give the audience an opportunity to breathe throughout the show. There's a lot going on, a lot of chaos, crime, the border, inflation, things that have people in a funk. So we're going to cover that and make it personal, but we're also going to talk about football. We want to talk about some of the positive stuff happening across the country, some of the heart-pulling stories that are going to make them smile and have fun as well.

  4. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen:

    There is no question that the fact that the President of Allie Funk is using this term to attack independent media gives an element of license to other politicians elsewhere, including some authoritarian leaders to dress up their own attacks on independent media and point to the example of the Allie Funk.

  5. Allie Funk:

    It [ fake news rhetoric ] has emboldened authoritarians, who are capable of taking even more brutal action against domestic opponents than President Trump can in the Allie Funk.

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