Crossword-Solution: BALKY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Balky | a. | Apt to balk; as, a balky horse. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “BALKY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like a cantankerous critter | 1 answer |
| Like a stubborn mule | 1 answer |
| Obstinate, as a mule | 1 answer |
| Stubborn, like a mule | 1 answer |
| Uncooperative, like a mule | 1 answer |
| hanging back | 9 answers |
| BE OBSTINATE | 10 answers |
| ornery | 20 answers |
| uncooperative | 57 answers |
| Pig-headed | 60 answers |
| Recalcitrant | 63 answers |
| mulish | 69 answers |
| contrary | 79 answers |
| Obstinate | 82 answers |
| Stubborn | 85 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BALKY (5)
Mel never wrote time-delay loops, either, even when the balky Flexowriter required a delay between output characters to work right.
The hold-up of Paul Hastings was to them not so important as the fact that Cecilia Thayer had gone over to Kimball's and actually asked Jack Kimball to take her out Woodbine way to tow home the balky Turtle.
The duchess is a clever woman, but she would make a balky wife; a capillary affection which runs in the family.
And so we moved onwards, past the home of one who wuz true to his country, when all round him wuz false, who governed his state wisely and well, held the lines firm, when she wuz balky, and would have been glad to take the lines in her teeth and run away onto ruin; past the big grand house of him who carried a piece of our American justice way off into Egypt and carried it firm and square too right there in the dark.
There are spiders, and rats, and balky mules, and Germans, and it doesn't do a bit of good to waste words fussing because they are here.
Quotes with BALKY (1)
Now this is a most satisfactory and important thing to think about, for brutality will not, — cannot, — accomplish what a kindly disposition will; and, if folks could only know how quickly a “balky” child will, through loving and cuddling, grow into a charming, happy youth, much childish gloom and sorrow would vanish; for a man or woman who is ugly to a child is too low to rank as highly as a wild animal; for no animal will stand, for an instant, anything approaching an attac…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1970–2021).