Crossword-Solution: BALKY 5 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Balky a. Apt to balk; as, a balky horse.

We have 15 clues for the answer “BALKY”

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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 Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
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 Motor Girls on a Tour Margaret Penrose 2001
The duchess is a clever woman, but she would make a balky wife; a capillary affection which runs in the family.
The Puppet Crown Harold MacGrath 2002
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.
Samantha at Saratoga Marietta Holley 2001
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.
The Belgian Twins Lucy Fitch Perkins 2003

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…
Ernest Vincent Wright Gadsby
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 18 times in crossword archives (1970–2021).