jerk
Example Sentences
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"It's Olympic lifts we're doing - clean and jerk, snatches, squats, the lot," says Hammy McMillan, who's gold medal-tipped men's rink start their campaign on Wednesday.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026
Am I being a jerk if I just don’t do anything at all?
From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025
“It’s really bad fanfic author behavior. All these people gave me lovely feedback, and I enjoyed it, and then I just took it away like a jerk to make money.”
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2025
Mr. Brolin is always engaging, and seems to be having a great time playing an angry jerk with mommy issues.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
She laughs instead of telling Stacy not to be a jerk.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.