How To Use Ropey In A Sentence
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He is looking decidedly ropey.
Times, Sunday Times
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He devoured some duck and turkey cat food while I administered a flea treatment, because he was starting to look ropey again.
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In the open kitchen, Chinatown veterans, who go by Mr. Chen (shown here) and Mr. Gao, stretch dough into ropey noodles, available thick or thin.
Mid-Day Hand-Pulled Noodle
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We're drowning under vast quantities of ropey information, and none the wiser for the experience.
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The Black Cats boss says the ropey ref made two major blunders which cost his side all three points.
The Sun
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But the first year in London was pretty ropey.
Times, Sunday Times
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I saw the opening 20 minutes or so of the original cut on VHS, but it was ropey and I never got around to finishing it.
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This is a subject close to my heart and I will do whatever is within my power to fight for the rights of … Bit ropey on the literacy side of things, what with ‘allot’ being a verb meaning to allocate or hand out.
Literacy News – 880th Edition « News « Literacy News
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It was somewhere we had visited on art college trips where, apart from the odd art gallery, the only Parisian experience we had was stumbling back through the red light district to our ropey hotel.
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ropey food
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Made in a pre-CGI age, it all looks a little ropey, with the fight scenes played for laughs out of necessity.
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Now it looks pretty ropey all round.
Times, Sunday Times
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All of which serves to prove that photography is a guilty pleasure with an intrinsically ropey relationship to trust.
Times, Sunday Times
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We're a bit ropey on art and natural history but other than that we are good to go.
Times, Sunday Times
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To me the plant called to mind a giant jungle of a cheese plant in the corner, with huge luxuriant leaves on tangly, ropey stems, streaming out of a giant clay pot and taking over half of the room all the way up to the ceiling.
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Although brilliant in patches, their pacing was pretty ropey too.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only because of woeful finishing and ropey refereeing, though.
The Sun
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I had a really ropey old time.
Times, Sunday Times
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They've sold some right horrors over the years, such as ropey endowments and high charging managed funds.
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Why not "crooked communiqu" or "ropey ringbinder" or "tarted-up tipsheet"?
Globe and Mail
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I do think it was put together quite nicely, visually, though, and the look is very effective and evocative - particularly the fact that you're watching a lot of what happens through ropey CCTV footage.
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It often delivers hot spells that make up for a ropey summer.
The Sun
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He looks real ropey in them suits, though.
Times, Sunday Times
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Friday night is a ropey night for guests (none ropier than me) but this crowd was beyond belief.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you're struggling to get onto the property ladder, the last thing you need is ropey mortgage advice.
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Ropey dialogue and hammy acting abound, and Zombie seems in no hurry to wind up the proceedings as the film starts to feel interminable.
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He said:'There were some pretty ropey new reviewers.
Times, Sunday Times
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This fact goes some way towards explaining why the nation's personal finances are looking pretty ropey at the moment.
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If there is a disappointment, it comes with the slightly ropey set of motion controls, but these can easily be replaced with much more suitable touchscreen buttons.
Times, Sunday Times
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Feeling a bit ropey, Jade?
The Sun
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The 20-year-old Ulsterman started off "ropey" in his own words in the blustery, sand-swept conditions and then looked to Lady Luck to steady his dhow before producing four birdies on the back nine for a four-under 68.
The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
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So my sister has chickenpox and I'm feeling a bit ropey myself - could I be going down with it too?
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The Germans looked ropey at the back but their commitment to attack is commendable and they scored two absolute scorchers.
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Now I face a mystery tour on a ropey coach: I'm going to be a zombie all day, and in grave danger of slumping into my gravy over lunch.
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But be wary, the quality, while satisfactory on a 3.5in screen, will look very ropey on a 32 in widescreen job.
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Their health-care system suffers from queues, shortages and ropey equipment.
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a ropey performance
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In fact, she looks ropey.
The Sun
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Why not "crooked communiqu" or "ropey ringbinder" or "tarted-up tipsheet"?
Globe and Mail
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After a period of overconsumption and lack of sleep, most people feel ropey.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's true that people get signed on the strength of some pretty ropey demos but you have to think about why you would want to expend the effort of being in a band and then showcase your sound in such a sloppy careless way.
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Some of it is ropey, and some of the tracks go down routes that I wouldn't take nowadays, but on the whole I think it stands up.
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There have been some glowing PR-style puffs for this scheme in the mainstream press, but I think that it's pretty ropey.
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He was handsome, built like a runner, his legs ropey and tan, sideburns and blonde hair that flopped unapologetically over the forehead.
Cigarillo
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Hang on a minute - she was looking a bit ropey, actually.
Times, Sunday Times
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Much of the acting is pretty ropey, as if the cast think that they are in panto.
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This week's blog subject concerned my quest to find a replacement for my ropey old bike.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Black Cats boss says the ropey ref made two major blunders which cost his side all three points.
The Sun
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Mixing butter, red mineral pigments, and sometimes incense, Hamar women roll their hair into thick, ropey strands. See more photographs from the March 2010 feature story "Africa's Last Frontier.
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The sfx are a bit ropey, but the climax of the story makes up for it.
50 Essential SF Films « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…
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The Black Cats boss says the ropey ref made two major blunders which cost his side all three points.
The Sun
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Put it this way: I've had the best New Years Eve out for many a year, and still feel ropey 24 hours later!
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Back up above-ground, trek across the surreal terrain that resembles a moon crater and examine the different types of Hawaiian lava: pahoehoe, which has a smooth and ropey surface, and a'a, which resembles stirred up brownies.
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The Black Cats boss says the ropey ref made two major blunders which cost his side all three points.
The Sun
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The meanest Premier League defence for the previous two seasons now looks a bit ropey.
The Sun
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before letting loose with a chunky love stream of ropey barf.
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By Wednesday I was feeling ropey.
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He wore a blue buttoned-down shirt with the cuffs rolled halfway up his surprisingly ropey and thickly veined forearms.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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I've been struck down - like almost everyone else I know - with the norovirus, although it took me till Saturday morning to work out why I was feeling so ropey.
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If you already have wood flooring and it looks a bit ropey round the edges, these guys will also restore what you have.
The Sun
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It's a bit ropey sometimes but we're all very committed and confident, just not very talented.
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Patriots 0 Steelers 7, 4:51 1st quarter You wouldn't need to have been paying particularly close attention this season to know that the Patriots' pass defence has been looking a little ropey, and Pittsburgh are making no secret of their desire to exploit that weakness.
New England Patriots 17 Pittsburgh Steelers 25 - as it happened | Paolo Bandini
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All of which serves to prove that photography is a guilty pleasure with an intrinsically ropey relationship to trust.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had managed to have a shave the night before, but still felt pretty ropey, so I decided to get something to eat.
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The team lost after designing a ropey beach bookstand for those people who can't be bothered to hold a Stieg Larsson paperback.
Call Max Clifford – those Chilean miners need him
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Although I felt pretty ropey physically all weekend, with a gut-rot like nothing on earth, working through all of this and inputting the revisions I agreed with and the further ones that were prompted by this process kept me busy and happy.
Archive 2009-09-01
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It often delivers hot spells that make up for a ropey summer.
The Sun
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‘I felt ropey on the first lap,’ Radcliffe said, who had suffered a knee injury last week.
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Pop wore a short-sleeve polo shirt in dusty rose, tucked into well-ironed pleated khaki shorts from which his ropey calves emerged like skittle-pins.
The Outlaws
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The Black Cats boss says the ropey ref made two major blunders which cost his side all three points.
The Sun
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And then after a few months you might feel like making another of your ropey old movies.
Times, Sunday Times
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The other striking difference from the other prequels - and to be honest a lot of the original trilogy - is that there is some good acting and very little ropey dialogue.
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The Black Cats boss says the ropey ref made two major blunders which cost his side all three points.
The Sun
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Bit ropey on the literacy side of things, what with ‘allot’ being a verb meaning to allocate or hand out.
Literacy News – 880th Edition « News « Literacy News
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The idea of my local library doing anything more than providing a basic Internet connection at a few ropey old terminals in half-hour time slots is impossible to contemplate.
Libraries
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My colleagues' somewhat ropey grasp of physics resulted in a deluge of emails pointing out the error of our ways.
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A fairly ropey Greatest Hits collection followed and the recent announcement that Orbital were to split surprised nobody.
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While the premise is ropey at best, this is a damn enjoyable game.
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Firstly it's broader in its palette, secondly it's just a little bit ropey in parts with a raw edge - something I like, thirdly, well, it's just that bit rockier, which isn't quite the same as the second point although it is linked.
Irish Blogs
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The Black Cats boss says the ropey ref made two major blunders which cost his side all three points.
The Sun
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He left some ropey hurdling form behind with a convincing win.
The Sun
