sucky
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of sucky
Example Sentences
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The Surge is certain he would be unhappy in Congress too; it’s a sucky place and no one should serve in it.
From Slate
The CEO and his apps have been pilloried constantly over the past few years, from the botched personal PR campaign that caused people to wonder if he wanted to run for president, to the Cambridge Analytica scandal and scrutiny of Facebook’s at-times-cavalier attitude toward data collection, to the Facebook Papers leaks, to the ground Facebook has been losing to TikTok, to the company’s already-memory-holed metaverse gambit, to last year’s sucky Instagram algorithm tweaks, to the mass layoffs and internal dysfunction that roiled the company beginning last year.
From Slate
“Yeah, it was a sucky day. No one wants to stay in the airport for 18 hours, but if you have a positive view, you can turn something into a lot of fun.”
From Seattle Times
When James becomes, as Mia puts it, a “sucky baby,” he turns submissive and obedient.
From New York Times
How Elliot’s journey wasn’t described as a sucky puberty they were running from, but rather a joyous future they were running to.
From Washington Post
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