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wonky

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wonky in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. turned or twisted toward one side
    "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"
    askew  awry  cockeyed  lopsided  wonky  skew-whiff 
  2. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
    "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"
    rickety  shaky  wobbly  wonky 
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wonky in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (adjective) (context/mostly/UK/and/Australia) lopsided, misaligned or off-centre
  2. (adjective) (context/mostly/UK/and/Australia) feeble, shaky or rickety
  3. (adjective) ("computer jargon" especially Usenet and the Hacker's Dictionary) suffering from intermittent bugs, broken
  4. (adjective) Generally incorrect
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