balky

He’s got a balky knee, and now a painful biceps, and the Dodgers have kept him off the mound for a moment, but what happens in October?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

I jury-rigged a heating element for our Kenmore refrigerator’s balky ice-maker water-feed tube.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

There’s an argument to be made that the feds could believe they have a balky case and want to bloody up Adams in the public eye ahead of a trial.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2024

The original May 6 launch was scuttled hours before takeoff due to a balky rocket valve.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2024

After quite a struggle and a tug of war with a balky zipper, we finally got the suits on, and our helmets and gloves locked in place.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

After dozens of false starts, he wants to get two of his balkier clients to say yes to a house he shows them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Carter may also find the Federal Reserve balkier than before.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was seated at my typewriter and the book was balkier than usual, and I wished that the clumper at the door would go away.

From Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber

By the afternoon, three horses remained — the toughest and balkiest to get into trailers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2017

Replace the balkiest portions with gleaming fiber-optic wire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Foreign policy brought Bush his greatest successes, and it is the area in which a President can act more or less on his own, without being greatly hampered by even the balkiest Congress.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus will begin the second session of the 95th Congress, one of the boldest and balkiest in memory.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the second floor, directly, judging from the noise, over the stall of the balkiest horse in the stable below, is the room of the Madame.

From The Witches of New York by Q. K. Philander Doesticks