as in terrible
extremely unsatisfactory
I'm tired of driving around in a sucky car that is always breaking down
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Recent Examples of sucky
These last couple of years have been especially sucky, though.
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Rabih Alameddine
september 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
True to form, when my sons were in first grade, the advanced readers basked in the blue group, middle readers were relegated to the yellow group, the sucky readers sentenced to red.
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Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Aug. 2025
Where’s the comprehensive strategy on how to deal with climate change and the impact of climate change like the very sucky one of more ticks?
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Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
Pretty sucky timing happening there, while Mercury retrograde is gleefully sowing misunderstandings that seem to legitimize your gloomy suspicions.
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Jennifer Culp,
Them,
9 Aug. 2024
Uptime must be at least a (fairly sucky) 97% which means 262 hours of downtime is allow each year.
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Brad Templeton,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2023
Rabih Alameddine
september 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
True to form, when my sons were in first grade, the advanced readers basked in the blue group, middle readers were relegated to the yellow group, the sucky readers sentenced to red.
—
Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Aug. 2025
Where’s the comprehensive strategy on how to deal with climate change and the impact of climate change like the very sucky one of more ticks?
—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
Pretty sucky timing happening there, while Mercury retrograde is gleefully sowing misunderstandings that seem to legitimize your gloomy suspicions.
—
Jennifer Culp,
Them,
9 Aug. 2024
Uptime must be at least a (fairly sucky) 97% which means 262 hours of downtime is allow each year.
—
Brad Templeton,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sucky
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Thank you to everyone who read or contributed to this column over the years, who reached out to me with story ideas or tips, or complimented my terrible artwork.
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Visitors will see his Rough Riders uniform; the 1884 diary grieving his terrible loss; and the eyeglasses case, speech and shirt from the 1912 assassination attempt against him.
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The Red Sox offense has been horrible this season, but Contreras has been everything the club could have hoped for.
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Your cab driver is taking you on a horrible route.
Adjective
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One year Pippa Middleton faced the awful shame of having to sit in a normal seat after showing up late.
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Sugar is at the forensic lab with the corpse of a man who looks an awful lot like Ji Moon but isn’t Ji Moon (courtesy of Shea Whigham as Tom Flybjerg).
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Because of that, these hands suffer from high production costs, poor durability against impacts, short operational lifespans, and there are no existing solutions that engineers can readily draw upon, Wang added.
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The extreme heat can also affect people who are physically ill, especially those with heart disease or high blood pressure, or who take certain medications, such as for depression, insomnia, or poor circulation.
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That if you were deemed, as an enslaved person, if you were deemed troublesome or in some way unwanted, you would literally be sold down the river from the more northern states to the deeper south where you would potentially be treated even worse.
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Offer Real Value, Not Leftovers Most product bundles fail not because the idea is bad but because the execution misses what consumers actually want.
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“Sucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sucky. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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