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Recent Examples of sucky 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 And that's the sucky part. Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2022 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 On one thing David Roberts and I agree on: Grist has a sucky comment software. Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2010 What feels unmanageable today may feel, when tomorrow comes, still sucky but somehow not hopeless anymore. Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2021 There's the person voted out right before the merge — another super sucky spot to go since the entire game can be flipped on its head the day after you were voted out. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sucky
Adjective
  • And in addition to the swing itself, his overall approach at the plate has always been horrible.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • With guidance from Benny’s older sister and her campus-legend boyfriend, Benny and Carmen juggle horrible hookups, flavored vodka, and fake IDs.
    Peter White, Deadline, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Rarely great, and consistently cringey in that NHL way we’re used to by now, but rarely terrible.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • Gi-hun is left with a terrible choice: kill the baby and survive, or sacrifice himself so that the baby can live.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • What’s more, the Steelers failed to score a first-drive touchdown all season, were awful in the red zone, were awful on first down, and mostly awful in short yardage.
    Tribune Content Agency, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2025
  • Outcomes for what’s referred to as ‘children in care’ remain unacceptably awful.
    Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • Due to poor cell reception in the area, 911 calls kept dropping as witnesses scrambled to reach first responders.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2025
  • Orlik, who was seventy-seven, was in poor health and desperate to get his pictures back.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 17 June 2025

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“Sucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sucky. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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