balky

He said even its summer blooms are balky in the heat.

He moved back up front, hauling the balky dog along.

The man seemed to be trying to get the balky horse to drink.

She'd come there the day before, for schooling, and she had been balky.

You want to winch the book out of your balky mind.

But it died amid the radio campaign and a balky Senate.

Many of the balky plants are old and scheduled for retirement.

Several factors can bring it on; an excellent growing season and a balky public are two of the most common.

The putter was a little balky, but it's like a broken record.

His balky right knee, which hampered him all last season, is feeling strong again.

Deep holes in the road and balky water pressure have gone unresolved for several years, she said.

Now the officers had no trouble with balky men.

Now she knew she was turning balky, for good reason, but he would not know that.

He still needed help figuring out this society and recovering his balky memory.

He fought to hold her as the balky craft shuddered.

Technology has to be easy to use so lessons are not stalled while teachers try to get balky computers to work.

All they have in common is a balky zipper.

Was she celebrating our successful emergence from the balky elevator?

Classes where he used that coin exercise were always less balky and more interested.

It took the better part of half an hour to get the balky horses into the narrow cave.

The answer appears to be a bad mix of paperwork and balky computers.

In here was a straightforward mechanical problem: a balky generator.

But the Americans were put off by the Chinese company's balky managers.

As we swerved and curved past 8,000 feet, our car grew balky.

"I'll keep it unofficial, unless you get balky on me."