balky

While guessing that Ohtani’s balky left knee would not allow him to be 100% by October, manager Dave Roberts openly wondered Saturday whether a pitching comeback is worth the effort.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Maintaining and fixing a balky machine teaches necessary humility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

During individual drills, he rolled out and threw passes with no outward sign of a balky hamstring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. Pearson