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as in worthless
having no usefulness
that broken watch you're wearing is junky
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2
as in cheap
of low quality
a junky coat that is sure to fall apart after one winter
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Recent Examples of junky
The boys feel like their stuff is cheap and junky.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
16 May 2026
Rather than launching a sleek, new encrypted messaging app, Musk dropped an insular, junky extension of his social media platform that happens to include encrypted messaging.
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Reece Rogers,
Wired News,
27 Apr. 2026
But those competitors have released junky TikTok clones and slop generators.
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Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2026
Cheap gifts don’t have to be junky.
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Jessie Quinn,
StyleCaster,
25 Nov. 2025
Just in the past two days, the spicy, junky stuff has come in a bit ( quantum , drones , upstart nuclear power ), helpfully.
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Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
17 Oct. 2025
The restaurant only has one Formica table in a junky storage area by the drink fountain.
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Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 May 2025
Blomkamp can’t quite recapture the explosive propulsion of his debut feature, but Damon is a sturdy hero, and the director creates a convincingly junky future.
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Jason Bailey,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Windows Search includes a bunch of extra graphics and junky newsfeed items and apps by default.
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Ars Technica,
19 Feb. 2025
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
16 May 2026
Rather than launching a sleek, new encrypted messaging app, Musk dropped an insular, junky extension of his social media platform that happens to include encrypted messaging.
—
Reece Rogers,
Wired News,
27 Apr. 2026
But those competitors have released junky TikTok clones and slop generators.
—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2026
Cheap gifts don’t have to be junky.
—
Jessie Quinn,
StyleCaster,
25 Nov. 2025
Just in the past two days, the spicy, junky stuff has come in a bit ( quantum , drones , upstart nuclear power ), helpfully.
—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
17 Oct. 2025
The restaurant only has one Formica table in a junky storage area by the drink fountain.
—
Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 May 2025
Blomkamp can’t quite recapture the explosive propulsion of his debut feature, but Damon is a sturdy hero, and the director creates a convincingly junky future.
—
Jason Bailey,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Windows Search includes a bunch of extra graphics and junky newsfeed items and apps by default.
—
Ars Technica,
19 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junky
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Bitcoin is either digital gold or worthless.
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If Iran can still open and shut the Strait at will or charge fees on it, does that mean this agreement is worthless?
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Microchips are relatively cheap and are required for every pet in Los Angeles County over 4 months old.
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Prove Your Claims With Evidence In a market flooded with AI capabilities, claims are cheap, and every launch sounds the same.
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Vines have grown through the fence and barbed wire surrounding a tall art deco building in this city’s downtown, and cigarette holders and empty food tins litter the tall weeds.
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Inside, there’s an empty dining room.
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Thank you to everyone who read or contributed to this column over the years, who reached out to me with story ideas or tips, or complimented my terrible artwork.
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Visitors will see his Rough Riders uniform; the 1884 diary grieving his terrible loss; and the eyeglasses case, speech and shirt from the 1912 assassination attempt against him.
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Because of that, these hands suffer from high production costs, poor durability against impacts, short operational lifespans, and there are no existing solutions that engineers can readily draw upon, Wang added.
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The extreme heat can also affect people who are physically ill, especially those with heart disease or high blood pressure, or who take certain medications, such as for depression, insomnia, or poor circulation.
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That if you were deemed, as an enslaved person, if you were deemed troublesome or in some way unwanted, you would literally be sold down the river from the more northern states to the deeper south where you would potentially be treated even worse.
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Offer Real Value, Not Leftovers Most product bundles fail not because the idea is bad but because the execution misses what consumers actually want.
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More broadly, the idea that White players are inherently inferior no longer matches reality.
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This is because Austria would have remained on three points but with an inferior goal difference to Iran in the third-place standings (minus one to zero).
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To be fair, the DCEU, the preceding web of films, had nearly half of its movies land rotten scores.
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Big Red might be a braggart, a bully and rotten to the core, but Lasdun invokes Thomas De Quincey’s neat point about how a man’s capacity to rob says nothing about his propensity to murder.
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“Junky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junky. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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