kick up a stink

The phrase “kick up a stink” has 4 syllables: kick up a stink

It's pronounced as /kɪk ʌp ə stɪŋk/


What is synonym and antonym for kick up a stink?

In the thesaurus, “kick up a stink” has 52 synonyms and 12 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for kick up a stink along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for kick up a stink

  • beef
  • bellyache
  • bemoan
  • bewail
  • bitch
  • bleat
  • blubber
  • carp
  • caterwaul
  • cavil
  • complain
  • crab
  • croak
  • cry
  • deplore
  • fret
  • fuss
  • gripe
  • grizzle
  • grouch
  • grouse
  • growl
  • grumble
  • grump
  • holler
  • inveigh
  • keen
  • kick
  • kvetch
  • lament
  • maunder
  • moan
  • murmur
  • mutter
  • nag
  • protest
  • quibble
  • repine
  • scream
  • sob
  • squawk
  • squeal
  • stew
  • wail
  • whimper
  • whine
  • whinge
  • worry
  • yammer
  • yaup
  • yawp
  • yowl

Antonyms for kick up a stink

  • accept
  • applaud
  • bear
  • cheer
  • commend
  • countenance
  • crow
  • delight
  • endure
  • rejoice
  • take
  • tolerate

Example Sentences

  • Kick up a stink if you feel like you're not being treated fairly.
  • They always kick up a stink whenever there's a change in policy.
  • Don't be afraid to kick up a stink if you encounter any issues with your order.
  • The community decided to kick up a stink about the proposed construction project.
  • The employees threatened to kick up a stink if their demands for better working conditions weren't met.

On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to kick up a stink, such as: accept, applaud, bear, beef, bellyache, bemoan, bewail.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • A-OK
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  • bitch
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  • blubber
  • blue-chip
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  • boffo
  • bonnie
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  • champing at the bit
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  • classic
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  • cri de coeur
  • croak
  • cry
  • cunning
  • cutting
  • daggerlike
  • dandy
  • decent
  • deep
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  • deplore
  • desirous
  • devoted
  • discerning
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  • disposed
  • divine
  • dolor
  • dope
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  • dying to
  • dynamite
  • eager
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  • ebullient
  • edged
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  • educated
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  • excellent
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  • grizzle
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  • ground
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  • grump
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  • hair-trigger
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  • happy
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  • hungry
  • hype
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  • hypersensitive
  • immense
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  • impatient
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  • inveigh
  • inventive
  • invigorating
  • jabbing
  • jagged
  • jim-dandy
  • judicious
  • juiced
  • kick
  • kick up a fuss
  • kick up a stink
  • knifelike
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • kvetch
  • lacerating
  • lament
  • lamentation
  • learned
  • literate
  • lively
  • logical
  • longing
  • lovely
  • magnified
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • maunder
  • mean
  • moan
  • mourning
  • murmur
  • mutter
  • nag
  • neat
  • needlelike
  • nifty
  • nimble
  • nippy
  • noble
  • number one
  • numero uno
  • nuts
  • observant
  • obsessed
  • okay
  • out of this world
  • out-of-sight
  • outcry
  • oversensitive
  • par excellence
  • passable
  • peachy
  • peachy keen
  • penetrating
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • perfervid
  • perspicacious
  • phat
  • piercing
  • pining
  • plaint
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • precise
  • premium
  • prickly
  • prime
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  • prize
  • prizewinning
  • profound
  • protest
  • prudent
  • pumped
  • quality
  • quibble
  • quick
  • quick-witted
  • radical
  • raring
  • rational
  • raw
  • razor-sharp
  • ready
  • reasonable
  • receptive
  • regret
  • repine
  • resourceful
  • restive
  • restless
  • righteous
  • rigorous
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sane
  • sapient
  • sardonic
  • satirical
  • satisfactory
  • savvy
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • scratching
  • scream
  • screech
  • select
  • sensational
  • sensible
  • sensitive
  • severe
  • sharp
  • sharp as a tack
  • sharp-witted
  • sharpened
  • shrewd
  • shriek
  • shrill
  • skilled
  • slick
  • smart
  • smarting
  • snappy
  • sob
  • solicitous
  • sorrow
  • sorrowing
  • sound
  • special
  • spikey
  • spiky
  • spirited
  • splendid
  • sprightly
  • squall
  • squawk
  • squeal
  • stabbing
  • standard
  • stellar
  • sterling
  • stew
  • stinging
  • stoked
  • stressed
  • strong
  • stropped
  • subtle
  • suffering
  • superb
  • superfine
  • superior
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  • supernal
  • supersensitive
  • supersmart
  • swell
  • tart
  • tears
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  • thirsty
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  • tolerable
  • too much
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  • ululate
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  • wail
  • warm
  • weeping
  • well-read
  • whetted
  • whimper
  • whine
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  • whiz
  • wild
  • willing
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  • wise
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  • woe
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  • worry
  • yammer
  • yaup
  • yawp
  • yell
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  • yowl
  • zealous

kick

  • abandon
  • ambrosia
  • amusement
  • anathematize
  • argument
  • arousal
  • backlash
  • balk
  • bang
  • bashing
  • battering
  • beef
  • bellyache
  • bemoan
  • bewail
  • bitch
  • bleat
  • blow
  • blubber
  • bludgeoning
  • boot
  • buffet
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  • calcitrate
  • carp
  • caterwaul
  • cavil
  • censure
  • challenge
  • charge
  • clobbering
  • collision
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  • comfort
  • complain
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  • contact
  • crab
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  • criticism
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  • croak
  • cry
  • curse
  • damn
  • dare
  • debate
  • defiance
  • defy
  • delectation
  • delight
  • demonstrate
  • demur
  • demurral
  • demurrer
  • denounce
  • deplore
  • desist
  • difficulty
  • disobedience
  • disobey
  • dispute
  • dissent
  • distrust
  • distrustfulness
  • diversion
  • doubt
  • dropkick
  • dubiety
  • dubitation
  • electrification
  • encounter
  • enjoyment
  • entertainment
  • except
  • exception
  • excitement
  • execrate
  • exhilaration
  • expostulate
  • expostulation
  • feast
  • fight
  • force
  • fret
  • frisson
  • fun
  • fuss
  • gag
  • gas
  • give the foot
  • give up
  • go cold turkey
  • gratification
  • gripe
  • grizzle
  • grouch
  • grouse
  • growl
  • grumble
  • grump
  • hammering
  • hassle
  • high
  • hit
  • holler
  • hoot
  • impact
  • impingement
  • incertitude
  • indetermination
  • indulgence
  • intensity
  • intoxication
  • inveigh
  • jar
  • jollies
  • jolt
  • jounce
  • joy
  • keen
  • kick up a fuss
  • kick up a stink
  • knock
  • kvetch
  • lambasting
  • lament
  • leave off
  • licking
  • lift
  • manna
  • maunder
  • meeting
  • misdoubt
  • misgiving
  • mistrust
  • mistrustfulness
  • misunderstanding
  • moan
  • mumble
  • murmur
  • mutter
  • nag
  • niggle
  • object
  • objection
  • oppose
  • pep
  • pleasure
  • pounding
  • protest
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punch
  • pungency
  • punt
  • qualm
  • qualmishness
  • quarrel
  • question
  • quibble
  • rap
  • rebel
  • rebellion
  • recreation
  • refreshment
  • relief
  • reluctance
  • remonstrance
  • remonstrate
  • repine
  • reservation
  • resist
  • rush
  • scream
  • scruple
  • sensation
  • shock
  • skepticism
  • slam
  • slap
  • smash
  • snap
  • sob
  • solace
  • sparkle
  • spurn
  • squabble
  • squawk
  • squeal
  • static
  • stew
  • stick
  • stimulation
  • stink
  • stop
  • strike
  • surprise
  • surprize
  • suspicion
  • take exception
  • take issue
  • tang
  • thrashing
  • thrill
  • thump
  • titillation
  • touch
  • treat
  • uncertainty
  • unease
  • uneasiness
  • unwillingness
  • verve
  • vitality
  • wail
  • wallop
  • whimper
  • whine
  • whinge
  • withstand
  • worry
  • wrangle
  • yammer
  • yaup
  • yawp
  • yowl
  • zest
  • zing

nag

  • annoy
  • badger
  • bait
  • bay
  • beef
  • beg
  • bellyache
  • bemoan
  • berate
  • bewail
  • bitch
  • black
  • blandish
  • bleat
  • blubber
  • bother
  • bronco
  • buckskin
  • bug
  • cajole
  • carp
  • carp at
  • caterwaul
  • cavil
  • charger
  • chestnut
  • chivvy
  • chivy
  • coax
  • cob
  • colt
  • complain
  • courser
  • cow pony
  • crab
  • croak
  • cry
  • cutting horse
  • deplore
  • dobbin
  • dog
  • dun
  • eat
  • egg
  • equid
  • equine
  • exhort
  • filly
  • find fault
  • foal
  • fret
  • fuss
  • galloper
  • gelding
  • give a hard time
  • goad
  • gripe
  • grizzle
  • grouch
  • grouse
  • growl
  • grumble
  • grump
  • hack
  • hackney
  • harass
  • harry
  • hassle
  • heckle
  • hector
  • henpeck
  • holler
  • horse
  • hound
  • importune
  • incite
  • insist
  • inveigh
  • irk
  • irritate
  • jade
  • keen
  • kick
  • kick up a fuss
  • kick up a stink
  • kvetch
  • lament
  • mare
  • maunder
  • moan
  • mount
  • murmur
  • mustang
  • mutter
  • needle
  • nitpick
  • nudge
  • packhorse
  • palomino
  • pester
  • pick at
  • pinto
  • plague
  • plead
  • plug
  • pony
  • prancer
  • press
  • pressure
  • prod
  • prompt
  • protest
  • provoke
  • push
  • quarter horse
  • quibble
  • racehorse
  • repine
  • ride
  • roan
  • saddle horse
  • scold
  • scream
  • skate
  • skewbald
  • sob
  • sorrel
  • spur
  • squawk
  • squeal
  • stallion
  • steed
  • stew
  • take it out on
  • tease
  • torment
  • trotter
  • upbraid
  • urge
  • vex
  • wail
  • warhorse
  • wheedle
  • whimper
  • whine
  • whinge
  • work on
  • workhorse
  • worry
  • yammer
  • yaup
  • yawp
  • yowl

wail

  • agonize
  • agonizing
  • anguish
  • bawl
  • bay
  • beef
  • bellyache
  • bemoan
  • bewail
  • bitch
  • bleat
  • bleed
  • blubber
  • blubbering
  • carp
  • carry on
  • caterwaul
  • cavil
  • challenge
  • complain
  • complaint
  • crab
  • cri de coeur
  • croak
  • cry
  • cry the blues
  • crying
  • demur
  • deplore
  • dolor
  • expostulation
  • fret
  • fuss
  • grief
  • grievance
  • grieve
  • grieving
  • gripe
  • grizzle
  • groan
  • grouch
  • grouse
  • growl
  • grumble
  • grump
  • hand-wringing
  • heartache
  • heartbreak
  • holler
  • howl
  • hurt
  • inveigh
  • jowl
  • keen
  • kick
  • kick up a fuss
  • kick up a stink
  • kvetch
  • lament
  • lamentation
  • maunder
  • miserere
  • moan
  • mourn
  • mourning
  • murmur
  • mutter
  • nag
  • niggle
  • objection
  • outcry
  • plaint
  • protest
  • quibble
  • regret
  • remonstrance
  • repine
  • rue
  • scream
  • screech
  • shriek
  • shrill
  • sniff
  • snivel
  • sniveling
  • sob
  • sobbing
  • sorrow
  • sorrowing
  • squall
  • squawk
  • squeal
  • stew
  • stink
  • suffer
  • suffering
  • tears
  • ululate
  • weep
  • weeping
  • whimper
  • whimpering
  • whine
  • whinge
  • whining
  • woe
  • worry
  • yammer
  • yammering
  • yaup
  • yawp
  • yell
  • yelp
  • yowl

yammer

  • beef
  • bellyache
  • bemoan
  • bewail
  • bitch
  • bleat
  • blubber
  • carp
  • caterwaul
  • cavil
  • challenge
  • complain
  • complaint
  • crab
  • croak
  • cry
  • demur
  • deplore
  • expostulation
  • fret
  • fuss
  • grievance
  • gripe
  • grizzle
  • grouch
  • grouse
  • growl
  • grumble
  • grump
  • holler
  • howl
  • inveigh
  • keen
  • kick
  • kick up a fuss
  • kick up a stink
  • kvetch
  • lament
  • maunder
  • miserere
  • moan
  • murmur
  • mutter
  • nag
  • niggle
  • objection
  • plaint
  • protest
  • quibble
  • remonstrance
  • repine
  • scream
  • sob
  • squawk
  • squeal
  • stew
  • stink
  • wail
  • whimper
  • whine
  • whinge
  • worry
  • yaup
  • yawp
  • yowl

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