sucky
- adjective
- /ˈsʌki/
- Informal
- After a week of bad weather, my vacation plans felt really sucky.
- really sucky
- pretty sucky
- sucky birthday
So that was the, that was the, the, the sucky part of it, obviously.
- So that was the, that was the, the, the sucky part of it, obviously.
- And then don't look for the don't look for the suckiest thing you could possibly do first.
- It's a it's a sucky situation because I did fuck with Logan.
- They're just as arrogant, They're just as sucky.
- So I feel like saying anything else after this feels just sucky.
- I mean, because I'm just such a oh, I'm this, I am a sucky romantic.
- When I walk around in the Middle East as a average Middle Eastern and my life is sucky.
- And there are a handful of other sucky slash weird things.
- Speaking of sucky sucky book The Murders.
- This isn't as sucky in, but it's nice and secure.
- Then we've got our Lightning Round segment and a very special Sucky Ads segment for you as well.
Examples
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Frankly, it was kind of sucky, and we didn't enjoy it very much.
Blog text (2) -
How come the sucky companies don't feel the urgency to act?
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So that was the, that was the, the, the sucky part of it, obviously.
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That person felt sucky about themselves too.
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You set up one day, and that day unfortunately may have been one of the sucky days.
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When I talk to my friends about those sucky companies, there is a common theme.
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Still, relative to my own cultural expectations, it's been a pretty sucky week.
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Even the best-laid year-end campaign plans can fall flat if you settle for sucky appeals.
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I won't quibble with "sucky," since relative to Harvard and Yale, UofHouston and Rutgers are "sucky."
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The movie was so sucky that we left halfway through.
Synonyms
Very bad or unpleasant and often serious
Very bad or unpleasant and causing dislike
Very bad or mean and not liked by people
Very bad or of low quality
Very bad or low quality, used to show strong dislike
Low quality and unpleasant
Very bad or of poor quality
Very bad and unpleasant
Very bad in quality or a person who praises others to gain favor
Very bad and disappointing to experience
Poor quality and disappointing
Not as good as expected and a bit upsetting
An informal word used to say something is bad or low quality
Of very poor quality and not good
Not very good or interesting
Antonyms
Compounds
How Bad
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sucky comes from the verb suck, which first meant 'to take in with the mouth' and later in informal speech came to mean 'be very bad or disappointing', and the ending -y means 'having the quality of'. So something sucky is like something that 'sucks' — it disappoints or is unpleasant.