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Are utterly awful (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

suck

(Other definitions for suck that I've seen before include "Don't blow!" , "Draw in by creating a vacuum" , "Be bad" , "Behave like Hoover, perhaps" , "Pull on straw" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.
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