Used in a Sentence

hinky

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hinky.

Editorial note

It's been my consistent experience that if a candidate gives you some kind of hinky vibe, don't use them.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Acting suspiciously; strange, unusual; acting in a manner as if having something to hide, or seemingly crooked.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hinky gathered in one view.

adjective

Acting suspiciously; strange, unusual; acting in a manner as if having something to hide, or seemingly crooked.

adjective

Suspicious (of something).

adjective

Dishonest; sketchy; shady

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hinky.

adjective

Acting suspiciously; strange, unusual; acting in a manner as if having something to hide, or seemingly crooked.

adjective

Suspicious (of something).

adjective

Dishonest; sketchy; shady

adjective

Unreliable; wonky

Example sentences

1

It's been my consistent experience that if a candidate gives you some kind of hinky vibe, don't use them.

2

This service looks hinky and it's not clear what sets it apart from other time-tracking apps.

3

Although it does get a bit hinky when shifts to and from daylight savings time don't align across differing regions.

4

You should do what everyone else does and use GPG, on your actual computer, not some hinky web application someone built.

5

There's a good chance you'd notice something hinky going on, and of course there's no guarantee you'd run a command in history.

6

Breakpoints are hinky in Firefox in general, both in Firebug and in Developer tools.

7

Your classes become a morass of delegate methods and hinky hijinks to pass what should be closure-captured state across disparate method calls.

8

Pyron said that this stuff wasn't needed to learn Computer Science and that most of it was hoaky and kind of hinky.

9

It's a bit hinky in places, but it is (1) portable and (2) supported by any operating system work using on the desktop.

10

Thinking about the act of watching itself as a stream does seem hinky.

11

Which is pretty hinky when placed next to the statements about strength.

12

Something hinky is going on here - we live in a bubble-wrapped safety-first society, yet disabilities jump 50% in 15 years?

Quote examples

1

If things start to go really, State-concerning hinky, then authorities "pull the plug" before the next interval is up.

2

Just the opposite, and you get a "hinky" kind of motion.

3

Making FizzBuzz work at all is just stupidly simple; but the moment you ask yourself about the little details, you notice that you either have to make an if tree, a bunch of if-elseif's, or some other hinky thing that ruins the "purity" of this simple little program.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hinky in a sentence?

It's been my consistent experience that if a candidate gives you some kind of hinky vibe, don't use them.

What does hinky mean?

Acting suspiciously; strange, unusual; acting in a manner as if having something to hide, or seemingly crooked.

What part of speech is hinky?

hinky is commonly used as adjective.