balky

He’s got a balky knee, and now a painful biceps, and the Dodgers have kept him off the mound for a moment, but what happens in October?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

Even with his career at its pinnacle and before his back became chronically balky, Woods found his way onto tabloid headlines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

Maintaining and fixing a balky machine teaches necessary humility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

There’s an argument to be made that the feds could believe they have a balky case and want to bloody up Adams in the public eye ahead of a trial.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2024

They draped these over the balky apparatus and localized the radiation source to Kamen’s fly, which evidently had collected a heavy burden of waste radio-phosphorus from Kamen’s work for John Lawrence.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Carter may also find the Federal Reserve balkier than before.

From Time Magazine Archive

After dozens of false starts, he wants to get two of his balkier clients to say yes to a house he shows them.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was seated at my typewriter and the book was balkier than usual, and I wished that the clumper at the door would go away.

From Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed by Ferber, Edna

By the afternoon, three horses remained — the toughest and balkiest to get into trailers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2017

Replace the balkiest portions with gleaming fiber-optic wire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus will begin the second session of the 95th Congress, one of the boldest and balkiest in memory.

From Time Magazine Archive

He rode herd on the balkiest members of his own party, hammered patchwork Administration proposals into workable legislation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ed was one of the balkiest boys I ever had in my school.

From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Pearson, Francis B.