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shonky

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Definitions

  1. Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable; deviously dishonest, fraudulent.

Word origin

From 1970s; possibly from dialectal English shonk (“smart”).

Used in a sentence

  • He might be a dole-bludger, a gambler and have the shonkiest tattoo in the world on his arm, but he'll agree to almost anything.
  • From no-brow beginnings, when BSG [Battlestar Galactica] still had to prove it had outwitted the shonky source material, the show gained cult respect and a few more viewers by the second year.
  • That′s why it is infuriating that there are still so many sharks out there who are determined to rip men off with shonky treatments that simply don′t work.

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