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

Miles said his balky back no longer allows him to shoot, and it’s also kept him away from Seattle U games, which he attended regularly before the pandemic.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024

They were balky, and it took me a few minutes to get them inside and the door shut and latched.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Carter may also find the Federal Reserve balkier than before.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

He rode herd on the balkiest members of his own party, hammered patchwork Administration proposals into workable legislation.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the balkiest Yankee machine since Manager Joe McCarthy got behind the steering wheel nine years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ed was one of the balkiest boys I ever had in my school.

From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. Pearson