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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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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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That is compliance, and compliance is worthless in a transformation.
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The revolution won’t come cheap.
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Across six online experiments, the researchers showed participants a cheaper lower-quality item such as a sweater alongside a pricier higher-quality version.
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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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The production quality was terrible.
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But in May of 1943, a terrible fire burned his studio to the ground.
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Rebecca Lowe joins Dan Patrick to discuss some of the top storylines around the World Cup, including Cristiano Ronaldo's poor play to start, the United States' potential and more.
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Will the gap between rural and urban America – and the gap between rich and poor America – decline or grow?
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Are those still your worst fears?
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While a higher tracker error is not bad in and of itself, most investors become uncomfortable when their portfolio acts so differently from the index.
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Against Australia in the last 16, Argentina were again labouring when faced with an inferior opponent, digging in and determined to spoil their World Cup dreams.
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Uruguay tied again, this time a 2-2 stalemate against another adversary that less than two weeks ago, pretty much every soccer pundit would have deemed inferior.
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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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