How To Use scunner In A Sentence
- And far from bored, 'scunnered' implies loathing, repugnance or disgust. Times, Sunday Times
- But he does harbour this horrible dread of dentistry which became a real scunner when he suffered a bout of toothache.
- If Salmond was scunnered with Scotland, why not let him have a rest in Westminster?
- 'kings of finance' -- then I suddenly took a 'scunner' as we Scots say, at the whole lot, and hated and despised myself for ever so much as thinking that it might serve my own ends to become their tool. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
- Somebody might inform him that while he may know the Danish and English words for the feelings he has experienced this week, he should be aware they could best be described, in Scottish terms, as scunnered.
- I'm also scunnered with talking about cross-dressing and engaging in the whole ‘should men wear skirts’ debate, feeling as I do that it merely illustrates for the umpteenth time that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
- I look at the old country as it was in my youth and as it is today and, to use a fine Scots word, I am scunnered. The last testament of Flashman’s creator: How Britain has destroyed itself « Isegoria
- Scunnered with the malign Scottish press, scunnered with his own backbenchers, scunnered with the amateurism and ineptness of the parliament.
- I thought she seemed to gie a scunner at the eggs and bacon that Nurse Simson spoke about to her. The Surgeon's Daughter
- Scotch milliner across the road took what she called a "scunner" at the silk and muslin flowers, with their odious starchy, stuffy smell, and wondered where the farmer was, who two years ago had asked her to marry him. Purple Springs
