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Wonky

adjective
1.
Turned or twisted toward one side.  Synonyms: askew, awry, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff.  "His wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"
2.
Inclined to shake as from weakness or defect.  Synonyms: rickety, shaky, wobbly.  "A wobbly chair with shaky legs" , "The ladder felt a little wobbly" , "The bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"





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"Wonky" Quotes from Famous Books



... so silly as you. They resented my English particularly, and they resented my funking whisky when they were all boozing. They thought I was being superior. Lord, if they'd known! One night, when they were calling me Jesus' Little Lamb and Wonky Willie, I saw red and tackled an Irishman. Of course, he knocked me out of time. I knew he would. And just to show them that I wasn't wonky, and wasn't a Cocoa Fiend—that was another name they had for me—I downed a tumbler full of ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles


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