Words similar to funk

Example sentences for: funk

How can you use “funk” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Get down , however, besides meaning to alight, also refers to loosening up or having sex (from get down to it ), as in the refrains of so many funk songs from the 1970's.
"Romantic comedy has been in a funk since women's lib and the pill popped the champagne bubbles of sexual tension."
[Funk & Wagnalls New Standard]
Then there are books, like Funk's A Hog on Ice and my own The Whole Ball of Wax , that treat the origins of particular kinds of expressions and, occasionally, words.
The Wu-Tang Clan has entered the "stagnant hip-hop scene like a slap in the face, parading its strikingly original gutter funk like a ghetto peacock" (Matt Diehl, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the group's eclectic influences--including funk, flamenco, and psychedelic--and its lyrics, "as dense, obsessed, prolific and full of popular and arcane references as a Pynchon novel" (Neil Strauss, the New York Times ). (Clips are available here.)