Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Highly unpleasant or disagreeable.
- adjective Of poor or inferior quality.
- adjective Inept or incompetent.
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- adjective slang Of or pertaining to something which
sucks , which is unpleasant or lacks value.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Even if you are an excellent parent, something sucky is going to happen to your child eventually, but it doesn't miss out on anything if it hasn't been born.
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One can surely live a worthwhile, even happy, life despite the assurance that "something sucky is going to happen [...] eventually".
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Ray Harryhausen is a legend, but how many times have I heard some ‘Tard call it sucky clay-mation.
Sunday Discussion: Practical Effects vs CGI - Is One Better Than The Other? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Claire Light writes Those who read slush know although it's not cool to talk about in these terms that the submissions from women and poc are often disproportionately sucky, which is sometimes why even the proportions of women and poc who submit aren't reflected in the proportions of women and poc actually published.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010
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I'm a product of your so-called sucky Parks and Recs league and I got a NCAA D-1 softball scholarship.
Southern Maryland Community Forums blondie4512 2010
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I'm a product of your so-called sucky Parks and Recs league and I got a NCAA D-1 softball scholarship.
Southern Maryland Community Forums blondie4512 2010
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…I'm not saying backdrop canons have to be kind of sucky - I am just not familiar enough with TV and movies to know for sure.
TFV and me (mostly TFV) on fannish AUs hradzka 2010
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And I'm not saying backdrop canons have to be kind of sucky - I am just not familiar enough with TV and movies to know for sure.
thoughts on the fannish AU hradzka 2010
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My humor (unless you don't think it's funny ... then 'sucky') blog is at www. pajamasandcoffee.com.
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I still think my synopsis is kind of sucky, but I've been sending it out to agents as if it's the cherry on top.
The Dreaded Novel Synopsis Victoria Janssen 2009
fiorilloaj commented on the word sucky
sucky the condition of suck
December 30, 2007
bilby commented on the word sucky
"Suck - Strong liquor of any sort. Sucky: drunk."
- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'.
September 11, 2008