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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
“We have horrible, disgusting, dangerous, filthy encampments of junkies and homeless people living in places that our children used to play Little League baseball, which they don’t get to play very much anymore, do they?”
"Democracy" is a word that may sound soaring to political junkies, but feels bureaucratic and frankly bloodless to many others.
He had spent a decade in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen and got used to “stepping over people and junkies and all that.”
Trump's violence may not be novel to political junkies and journalists, but a lot of Americans have no idea how bad he's gotten because they don't pay much attention.
Even news junkies are used to thinking of the nine members as names on opinions, pieces in a political-judicial long game, faces on a nine-headed body.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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