- a variation of junkie.
junky
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He references “Wonder Man’s” most emotional scene, when Simon is in his junky Toyota Camry with Trevor, pondering quitting acting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The Russell 2000’s simplicity, being based only on size, causes it to include lots of junky companies—great in a bull market but less-so over the long term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
It included absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real, junky AI-written books, “workslop” reports that waste coworkers’ time — and lots of talking cats.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026
Even the artificial-intelligence trade, which has been producing profits, may be more junky than it seems.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
“I have no idea. I can’t read it. But a lot of her jobs are junky self-help books that she complains about. She’s more of a science fiction fan.”
From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead
The most important thing political junkies might need this week is patience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
But when it was bought by Expedia and shut down in 2017, travel junkies went looking for a suitable replacement and couldn’t find one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
It could have been for any other market research exercise, for washing powder or water bills, rather than anything to do with Westminster - so it wasn't a gathering of political junkies.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
Finally, there are the research junkies who do deep dives into a person’s history to create online biographies.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
“The object of attention. Nicole. Gossip junkies love the chase. End that, you end the story.”
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
“Then the portfolio gets a little junkier and if you keep doing that pretty soon the portfolio is upside down,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
So, yes, junk food is even junkier than previously thought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
The director Robert Schwentke, whose credits include “Flightplan” and junkier diversions like “R.I.P.D.,” takes on this franchise with generic competence.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2015
He lays down simplistic but steady disco drumming, beautifully squelchy old synthesizer tones and a junkier version of the guitar-scratching perfected by James Brown’s old guitarist, Jimmy Nolen.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2010
Some are just slightly less junkier version of sugar-loaded snacks, but others are worth trying.
From Time Magazine Archive
The makes, the models, the mufflers that could furnish even the junkiest car with an impressive sound — how every detail felt like a secret he was revealing just to me, his only child.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2024
“It’s the escalating hype surrounding the release of the junkiest stuff, the willingness of the press to play along, the lust to be ‘No. 1 in America’ on thousands of screens.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
“Jonathan Demme is the American cinema’s king of amusing artifacts: blinding bric-a-brac, the junkiest of jewelry, costumes so frightening they take your breath away,” Ms. Maslin wrote.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2017
"These were the junkiest of the junk bonds, yet investors who asked specific questions about them were lied to," says New York Attorney General Robert Abrams.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reynolds is an ingratiating actor who, because he's fun to watch, can save even the junkiest movie.
From Time Magazine Archive
