shucks
Example Sentences
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Dressed in jeans, fashionable sandals and a white T-shirt emblazoned with Andy Anaheim, the city’s cheery mascot, Rubalcava offered me an aw shucks grin.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024
The NFL issued a $10 million fine — so, shucks, poor Dan will have to put his next super yacht on layaway — and shifted day-to-day control of the team to his wife, Tanya.
From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022
He might as well have said, "Aw, shucks."
From Fox News • Feb. 5, 2022
I used to sort of like, roll my eyes every time Taylor Swift was all, ‘Aw shucks, really, me?’
From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2021
He picks the first ear off the stalk, hurriedly shucks it, and buries his teeth into it.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
