Meaning & use
janky
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Of poor quality, unreliable, or put together in a shoddy way.
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The janky old elevator groaned the whole way up to the fifth floor.
Their website looked janky, with broken links on almost every page.
A note on using this word
Janky is informal and best suited to casual speech or writing; it's become common enough that major dictionaries now include it, but it still reads as slang.
Words with a similar meaning
shoddyrickety
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