MUGGED Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

mugged

verb

past tense of mug

as in grimaced

to distort one's face every time their picture was snapped, both children mugged by sticking out their tongues or scrunching up their faces

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as in photographed

to take a photograph of mugging captured criminals for the police records

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Recent Examples of mugged And, for extra-cheap laffs, these animals routinely mugged to the camera about how awful their lives were at the hands of the humans misusing them. — New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026 Stuff like Caitlin Clark getting mugged with no foul being called, or Sophie Cunningham pointing at some obnoxious player, or ESPN drooling over a coach wearing a pro-trans shirt. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026 While on the way to an audition, she was approached by fans and felt jarred, worried she was getting mugged. — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 16 June 2026 If you get mugged, don’t look the magnanakaw in the eye. — Joseph Trinidad, Longreads, 16 June 2026 Jeffries remembers that, in his preteen years, his mother, Laneda, was often mugged on her way home from work. — Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 Drivers in New York pay a $9 fee to drive into Manhattan to get mugged, have their cars hijacked, or both. — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 4 May 2026 Nathan MacKinnon managed to keep his cool Thursday despite getting mugged every shift and drawing some curious calls — Embellishment? — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026 Hardly surprising when the average American citizen is being fiscally mugged by the consequences of double standards that have long been at play, with Israeli entities not only exempt from registering as foreign agents, but exceptionally blessed to freely interfere in American political life. — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2026

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Then, as Cerúndolo prepared to serve, Sinner grimaced, took a few gingerly steps, and stretched his apparently cramping legs.

— Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Clark immediately started limping and grimaced as she was subbed out.

— James Boyd, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026

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Levine has photographed conflicts across the Middle East and in Ukraine for decades.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
The campaign was photographed by Yuto Kudo, who used a predominantly analogue process, with the black-and-white film being developed by hand in a darkroom.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026

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At eleven-thirty, Molina sat down at his kitchen table and, like López’s father, stared outside while listening.

— Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Standing barefoot outside his home at 8th Street and Balboa Boulevard, holding a cup of coffee, Ross Stewart, 79, stared at the gray sky and at the berms.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026

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