'ropey' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means something that is of poor quality or in poor condition, often used to describe something that is unstable or unreliable. Example: The construction of the old bridge looked ropey, with rusted metal and wobbly handrails. Another example: The players' performances in the first half were ropey, but they managed to turn it around in the second half and win the game.
It was, quite simply, ham acting; or perhaps it is truer to say it was indifferent acting whose negative qualities were brought out by a ropey script and hamfisted directing.
These arguments hinge on the rather ropey and profoundly Catholic notion that marriage exists solely as a vehicle for procreation.
The penalty to make it 2-1, scored by Raúl García, was extremely ropey and Griezmann was offside for the fourth.
We should always remember the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup – fondly glorifying it, misremembering how slow the net run rates actually were, perennially overrating some of the ropey touring sides who made up the numbers against Australia and the West Indies and convincing the generations below us that it was cricket nirvana because occasionally, it truly was.
Meanwhile, Carol and new boss Helen get a ropey show pitch from Merc, and Matt rebonds with ex-wife Diane.
The most shocking thing about San Andreas, the earth-shifting new disaster movie starring Dwayne Johnson (we're not allowed to call him The Rock anymore – hugely frustrating given the film's subject matter), isn't the slightly ropey dialogue or Kylie Minogue's cameo role as "bitchy woman of indistinct nationality" but the film's casual choice to break a cardinal rule of blockbuster cinema.
Early reports – which can be pretty ropey given it is in business interests to talk up sales – are that there has been an increase in these sales since the budget.
How ropey and expensive should the national ballet be allowed to become for the sake of employing British dancers?
As for Mr Christie, he finds himself struggling to defend the ropey condition of New Jersey's finances.
Last year China committed itself to spending an extra 200 billion yuan ($24 billion) on its ropey infrastructure over the next two years.
STOCKMARKETS around the world have had a ropey couple of weeks.
