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  • adjective comparative form of balky: more balky

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Examples

  • In fact, web users in the United States already pay far more for Internet access, and have far balkier web access, than patrons overseas.

    John Dougherty: The Clock Is Running Out on Net Neutrality 2010

  • In fact, web users in the United States already pay far more for Internet access, and have far balkier web access, Âthan patrons overseas.

    John Dougherty: The Clock Is Running Out on Net Neutrality 2010

  • It is also a story of budgetary and bureaucratic politics producing a device that, however miraculous, wound up being slower, balkier and less useful than it might have been.

    We Can See Clearly Now 2008

  • I was seated at my typewriter and the book was balkier than usual, and I wished that the clumper at the door would go away.

    Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed Edna Ferber 1926

  • Wireless worked well, although it was initially balkier than the machine had been while connecting to the same wireless router under Windows

    Raiden's Realm 2010

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