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junky
adjective as in bad
Strong matches
adjective as in cheap
Weak matches
adjective as in dissatisfactory
adjective as in jerry-built
adjective as in schlocky
Weak matches
- base
- broken-down
- cheap
- cheesy
- common
- dilapidated
- dingy
- discreditable
- disgraceful
- dishonorable
- disreputable
- gaudy
- ignominious
- inferior
- inglorious
- lousy
- makeshift
- mean
- miserable
- not up to snuff
- paltry
- plastic
- poor
- pretentious
- rotten
- run down
- scruffy
- second-rate
- seedy
- shabby
- shady
- shameful
- sleazy
- slipshod
- tacky
- tawdry
- trashy
- unrespectable
adjective as in shoddy
adjective as in slipshod
adjective as in tawdry
adjective as in trashy
adjective as in two-bit
adjective as in unsatisfactory
Example Sentences
Even the artificial-intelligence trade, which has been producing profits, may be more junky than it seems.
For Goldman’s Spencer Rogers, high-yield corporate bonds— junk bonds —are now “less junky” than they used to be.
The movie ultimately treats us like adrenaline junkies, assuming we lack curiosity.
Political junkies, and the news outlets that service their needs, abhor a vacuum.
It could have been for any other market research exercise, for washing powder or water bills, rather than anything to do with Westminster - so it wasn't a gathering of political junkies.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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