ropey food.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Fergus P: Indeed, the tinned stuff is pretty ropey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference

I feel terribly ropey, and it is worrying me slightly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worried] Reference

I'll just flog myself with some nasty acrylic ropey stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Award? Who, me??] Reference

Made a change from the ropey VHS copies I kept for years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Avengers] Reference

She has an upper body sheathed in ropey, well-defined muscle.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dreamer's Run: Can professional training improve a middle-age runner's marathon time?] Reference

The sun glinted off water at the turns of a wide, ropey river.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice of the Gods]

They all had long snouts, ropey bodies and small, sinister eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

Ireland's was the most awful performance, but the song was damned ropey too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finland Rocks!] Reference

In-concert material from the pre-Beggars period is notoriously ropey, so beware.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNet - Riot Grrls fronted by fit'n'working again bloke on loudhailer] Reference

There is a pleasing symmetry in the ropey science you get from different players.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't like your findings? Spin them away] Reference

The network of readers will still be required but not based on such ropey technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [B2fxxx] Reference

(Soundbite of gong) Ms. POUNDSTONE: By making him go through the velvet ropey thingies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lightning Fill In The Blank] Reference

The science in this theory is pretty ropey and is only championed by a minority, for now.    From Wordnik.com.  [A very green conspiracy?] Reference

This is a bit ropey, as many publishers pay royalties twice yearly, in June and December.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-07-01] Reference

They sell their sub-standard quality grapes to many vintners who turn it into a ropey wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond Sweet] Reference

Yes, he runs ropey stories that he changes repeatedly by way of U-Turns but without annotation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

In the open kitchen, two Chinatown veterans stretch dough into ropey noodles, available thick or thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oodles of Noodles] Reference

That makes us as good as Diddy, which is why we're about to release our own ropey cash-in perfume as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [LA Times Sorry For Calling Diddy A Big Thuggy Git] Reference

Carol Hannah also shows Tim a silk tank embellished with the ropey details she used in the Getty challenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale Recap Part One] Reference

Aside from the wounds, Bosch noted the rough and scarred hands and the ropey muscles that went up the arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Ice]

Neither is he mocking one of the brothers for confusing a ropey-looking Romanian transsexual for a groupie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justin Bieber Wants Your Mum] Reference

Are you old enough to remember a ropey Rutger Hauer film called Wedlock aka Deadlock, from the early 1990's?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wedded To State Security] Reference

"Not for executives" but mainly to passengers affected by the strike - "to make their experience less ropey".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Bit ropey on the literacy side of things, what with ‘allot’ being a verb meaning to allocate or hand out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literacy News – 880th Edition « News « Literacy News] Reference

It is no coincidence that the ropey periods for it have occurred at times when Osborne's own influence has been low.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

LS watches a ropey slickster with rubbed eyes and fancy suit smalltalk a magazine vendor, buy a tin of breath mints.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into The Great Behind] Reference

On the way back over Shap and Bowes moor the wind was horrendous and the sttering ropey, we were all over the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

It might not have been a prime Cavellesque bit of fillet, but I'll take a couple of Hornsby's ropey sausages any day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tour de France 2010: Stage 17 - as it happened] Reference

Real good fun - shambolic in parts (that's good shambolic), and the bass was pretty ropey, but I thought it were great.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNet - Hovis set-up in London's psoriasis] Reference

Good job anyway, Spotback has blew my stereotype away of ugly and ropey development often associated with Asian type developers reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Look at Personalized News] Reference

If kramer is ousted, as she deserves to be; it won't be because I voted for a billionaire eco warrior with ropey judgement. nicodemus31.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

What I meant was that the quality of sound on the old PCs - which was where I and most people listened to MIDI files - was pretty ropey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mad About MIDI] Reference

I'm meant to be doing stand-up again tonight, but leaving aside the fact that I feel ropey, there's every chance that it may be cancelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [we are the goon squad and we're coming to town. beep beep!] Reference