wonky
IPA: wˈɑnki
noun
- (music) A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
adjective
- Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
- (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) Feeble, shaky or rickety.
- (informal, computing) Suffering from intermittent bugs.
- (informal) Generally incorrect.
- Technically worded, in the style of jargon.
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Examples of "wonky" in Sentences
- It's not terribly wonky, which is good, but it isn't light on specifics, either ...
- Now, if only their email "validation" wasn't so friggin wonky ... and you could have more than one email address ... sammysam
- They came out a bit wonky, which is alright, because I was too anxious to see it finished to worry about physiological accuracy.
- Chicago is known as a wonky school full of nerdy intellectual types so it wasn't surprising that I was able to easily gather a group willing to pick up this 1079 page cinderblock.
- The new rules being developed may seem "wonky" but are important because the national forests provide drinking water for 124 million people in more than 900 cities nationwide and habitat for more rare species than national parks, said Jane Danowitz, public lands director for the Pew Environment Group.
- Really? and not one point of view is backed up with any substance; the snobbery about the orbit, for example, which is twice so lazily described as wonky, does not shed any light on mr long's objection to the idea or the execution. in fact re-reading this - out of sheer disbelief - i find no real content whatsoever. a terrible article, a terrible journalist.
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