flukey
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Backstrom shot toward the crease from behind the left pipe, and a few flukey bounces — off David Savard’s skate, then off Sergei Bobrosvky’s stick — sent it over Bobrovsky’s shoulder and in.
From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2018
After the Canadians cut the lead to one on a flukey goal with 3:26 to play, Marie-Philip Poulin netted both the tying goal in regulation, and the winner in overtime.
From Golf Digest • Feb. 8, 2018
"The wind is so flukey out there," said the Australian, who should at least end his run of five missed cuts on Friday.
From Reuters • Nov. 26, 2015
Today, the romantic comedy is yet more moribund than it was in 2007; after the flukey success of Knocked Up and Roberts’s transition into dramas, no one has taken the crown.
From Time • Mar. 23, 2015
A flukey breeze came out of the southeast and made sweaters comfortable.
From The Adventure Club Afloat by Barbour, Ralph Henry
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