balky

I jury-rigged a heating element for our Kenmore refrigerator’s balky ice-maker water-feed tube.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

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

And the New York Mets’ balky late-game bullpen.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2024

Nuggets point guard Jamal Murray, who missed seven games down the stretch with a balky knee, logged 39 minutes without any trouble in Game 1.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2024

There he was immersed in an effort to produce high-energy protons to probe the atomic nucleus, using his balky Tesla coils and Van de Graaff generators.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Carter may also find the Federal Reserve balkier than before.

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 Edna Ferber

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2017

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Joe made more news as baseball's balkiest holdout.

From Time Magazine Archive

Foreign policy brought Bush his greatest successes, and it is the area in which a President can act more or less on his own, without being greatly hampered by even the balkiest Congress.

From Time Magazine Archive

All those stately equipages were good, and the one that fell to us mounted the hill to our hotel by a grade so insinuating that the balkiest horse in Frascati could hardly have suspected it.

From Roman Holidays, and Others by William Dean Howells