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Recent Examples of sucky 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sucky
Adjective
  • The horrible accident — later determined to be caused by pilot error — remains the deadliest plane crash in Charlotte history.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But then came a horrible deep-ball attempt intended for Stefon Diggs that Isaiah Pola-Mao intercepted.
    Steve Buckley, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Overall, this wasn’t a terrible episode, but having our heroes start in the UK and then end up in Spain in the first episode felt rushed and wasteful.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Both men are good, both men are bad and both men have made terrible mistakes.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But for the rest of us mere mortals, the idea of stepping into an ice bath for 10 minutes a day is awful.
    Big Think, Big Think, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And then these families are in this awful position.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But prorating three years of player profits down to 12 months, as UEFA’s rule does, reduces the immediate efficacy of successful trading in the market, the very strategy that poorer clubs increasingly rely on to climb the ladder.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Like most extended car warranty providers, CarShield excludes pre-existing conditions that existed before your warranty took effect, as well as damage resulting from poor maintenance, neglect or intentional abuse.
    Brian Sloan, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Sucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sucky. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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