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shonky

/ ˈʃɒŋ°ìɪ /

adjective

  1. of dubious integrity or legality
  2. unreliable; unsound
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of shonky1

C19: perhaps from Yiddish shonniker or from sh ( oddy ) + ( w ) onky
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An external inquiry will be carried out at Dundee University, which is expected to highlight major management failures and a shonky IT system for student recruitment.

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"It's embarrassing that a supposedly world-leading country has such a shonky infrastructure," she says.

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Now I don’t even hesitate, deploying the same shonky economics I’ve always used to justify spending.

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Perhaps that overwhelmed feeling we have when facing this onslaught of content is what draws us to familiar tokens from childhood, shonky old stories and celluloid-scratched images that set the hippocampus tingling.

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That 2016 movie’s subtitle, Dawn of Justice, was always something of a shonky afterthought that essentially gave away the movie’s ending before we had seen the film’s opening frame.

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