suckier; suckiest
slang

Examples of sucky in a Sentence

I'm tired of driving around in a sucky car that is always breaking down.
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These last couple of years have been especially sucky, though. Rabih Alameddine september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025 True to form, when my sons were in first grade, the advanced readers basked in the blue group, middle readers were relegated to the yellow group, the sucky readers sentenced to red. Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025 Where’s the comprehensive strategy on how to deal with climate change and the impact of climate change like the very sucky one of more ticks? Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025 And concluding a sucky year for Chicago sports fans, the Blackhawks had a sad showing at Tuesday’s Winter Classic, suffering a 6-2 defeat at the hands of the rival St. Louis Blues. Grace Miserocchi, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2025 Pretty sucky timing happening there, while Mercury retrograde is gleefully sowing misunderstandings that seem to legitimize your gloomy suspicions. Jennifer Culp, Them, 9 Aug. 2024 Were there some sucky times? USA Today, 19 Mar. 2023 Uptime must be at least a (fairly sucky) 97% which means 262 hours of downtime is allow each year. Brad Templeton, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023 And that's the sucky part. Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1984, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of sucky was in 1984

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“Sucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sucky. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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