shonky
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable; deviously dishonest, fraudulent.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage; Informal
Example Sentences
- "1986, Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, ANZJS: The Australian & New Zealand Journal of Sociology, Volume 22, page 475, The argument gets even shonkier when they claim that the boundary between clerical and administrative work is difficult to define anyway, and that routinisation and fragmentation have affected lower and middle management too (pp. 95–6)."
- "The committee heard much evidence that this is a farce, yet this government have continued to try to pretend that their forecast, based on the shonkiest of assumptions—their model, with the shonkiest of assumptions—is really what is going to happen."
- "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."
- "Marred by shonky direction and factual errors, the film did nothing to enhance Kathner′s already poor reputation."
Etymology
Usage
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
- British usage
- Informal