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comparative wonkier, superlative wonkiest
Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre. quotations examples
Who's this gimp with a wonky eye / I don't know but his lips are dry
2016 April 2, “Afghan Business (Afghan Dan Send)”, performed by Dylan Brewer and Little T (Josh Tate)
(chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) Feeble, shaky or rickety. quotations examples
It seemed likely that he would need First Aid when those wonky steps yielded, at length, to the well-known law of gravitation.
1932, Frank Richards, The Magnet: The Terror of the Form
(informal, computing) Suffering from intermittent bugs. examples
(informal) Generally incorrect. examples
uncountable
(music) A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths. quotations examples
By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]
2015, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Robert P. Crease, Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers
Technically worded, in the style of jargon. quotations examples
Climate change is an issue that might lend itself more easily to thematic framing in the news, due to the often highly technical and wonky language required to explain it.
2009, Jesse Dale Holcomb, Faith, Science and Trust: Climate Change Framing Effects and Conservative Protestant Opinion, archived from the original on 7 March 2016
McCain's message, while similar in content and equally as valid, is lost in the minutiae of “'high-risk' pools” and wonky jargon.
2010, Michael Maslansky, Scott West, Gary DeMoss, David Saylor, The Language of Trust: Selling Ideas in a World of Skeptics
During the boom times, Paris Hilton, Snoop Dogg, Reese Witherspoon and Matt Damon all gushed about or invested in crypto projects, bringing a mainstream audience to the wonky world of digital currencies.
2023 July 6, Erin Griffith, David Yaffe-Bellany, “How Tom Brady’s Crypto Ambitions Collided With Reality”, in The New York Times