How to Use janky in a Sentence

janky

adjective
Definition of jankynext
  • All of this janky electrical goodness did not come cheap.
    — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
  • Our apartment is a steal for the location and square footage, but the tradeoff is that everything is a bit janky.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Did no one tell him that the Globes were kind of janky?
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The movie looks downright janky at times, and not in a charming way.
    — Michael Nordine, Variety, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Back in the ’50s and ’60s, the first batches were often janky messes.
    — Clive Thompson, Wired, 17 Jan. 2021
  • The game’s graphics are low-fi and its movements are janky.
    — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The flood of YouTube obituary videos is a janky update on this practice.
    — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The truly janky bits Heybike pegs the Tyson's range at 55 miles on pedal assist, and the battery can get a full charge in four to five hours.
    — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
  • When Mckenzie complained about her janky teeth, Kerr popped out her upper dental bridge to make her laugh.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2022
  • But perhaps millions more hated the feature simply because of how janky the views display looked jammed next to retweets and likes.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Ready to swap out the janky old vacuum your mom passed down to you in college for a more current (and effective) option?
    — Erin Parker, Glamour, 25 Dec. 2021
  • When the janky Internet connection goes out, his mom, Gabrielle Alston, tries to use the hotspot on her phone, but then her data runs out.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Of course, California’s not the only place where power is janky.
    — Christopher Null, Wired, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The extra-wide, side-by-side screens give off major Microsoft Surface Duo vibes, just without the janky software.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 13 July 2023
  • With Luis' support, Roach opens a janky massage parlor below the empanada joint in an effort to start a new chapter.
    — Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • The original film was made in the ‘70s and is set in the far future, and yet the Nostromo’s leaks and janky chains, not to mention the bizarre pseudo-mechanical design of the Xenomorph, make the film feel old and new at once.
    — James Grebey, TIME, 16 Aug. 2024
  • A lot of thought has been put into how a janky old phone or wireless earbuds might affect Emily and Sam’s communication.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Seeing your peppermint brownie recipe in a janky online newspaper will not redistribute the world's wealth and power.
    — Chris Colin, Wired, 18 June 2020
  • There are Russian oligarchs and business titans, strongmen, burner phones, janky bars and SROs, and dubious, shadowy figures with dirty hands.
    — Tracy Clark, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The Pixel 4a makes big design gains over the Pixel 4 by scrapping Google's janky air gesture system, which necessitated a bigger top bezel.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Vaccine verification in America has been janky from the start.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 May 2021
  • But a group of birders are worried that a road project designed to improve U.S. 25 in London and fix a janky intersection where a state road joins up with the federal highway at a 45-degree angle, will spell death for the pair of birds.
    — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 2 May 2022
  • And then there’s everything about the janky sub and its rich passengers, who have risked their lives on what is essentially a novelty expedition.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 June 2023
  • All three run the same interface, which has always been a little bit janky but has become increasingly busted as Google adds features and removes others.
    — Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 8 May 2023
  • That oversight — a result of three different employees’ failure to check two boxes that were part of a workaround within Citi’s janky software — led to more than two years of litigation between the bank and the lenders.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The American constitutional structure is a janky mess, and the party is deeply split both ideologically and along class lines.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 7 June 2021
  • Character models look janky and lack detail, while common enemies repeat far too often.
    — Mitch Wallace, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • When covid threatened the already janky network of child-care centers available to parents, the nation finally stepped into action and expanded benefits to child-care centers.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • There are a few extremely expensive high-profile keycaps from discontinued keyboards and some janky aftermarket sets.
    — Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Opening the door to an unoccupied room where chemical reactions are bubbling beneath a janky robotic scaffold, Cronin reveals that the automation of chemistry is already underway, with a goal set on far more than industry efficiency.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2021

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