hinky
/ˈhɪŋki/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.78 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Acting suspiciously; strange, unusual; acting in a manner as if having something to hide, or seemingly crooked.
Colloquial
Example Sentences
- "I thought he might be acting hinky."
- "There's nothing hinky about this."
- "1993 Jeb Stuart & David Touhy, The Fugitive, imdb.com, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106977/quotes This is hinky, this guy's a college graduate..."
- "And I don't know if that copper reaction you teased me with for H2CO3 would run that direction, would it? Looks hinky."
- "Given the hinky events of the past twenty-four hours, he had come to suspect that his own unhappy spouse had conspired in the defacing of his prize taxidermy, the trashing of the red BMW, and even the infesting of his luxury sport-utility vehicle with shit-eating insects."
- "A US customs agent, Diana Dean, questioned him at the border. He was fidgeting, sweaty, and jittery. He avoided eye contact. In Dean's own words, he was acting "hinky." Ressam's car was eventually searched, and he was arrested."
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Inflected Forms
hinkier (comparative)
more hinky (comparative)
hinkiest (superlative)
most hinky (superlative)
hinkey (alternative)
hinkty (alternative)
hincty (alternative)