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shonkier

shonkier is the comparative form of shonky.

Meaning of shonky

Adjective

shonky (comparative shonkier, superlative shonkiest)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal) Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable; deviously dishonest, fraudulent.
    • 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).1986, Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, ANZJS: The Australian & New Zealand Journal of Sociology, Volume 22, page 475

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Questions about shonkier

What is shonkier the comparative form of?
Shonkier is the comparative form of shonky.

Words near shonkier in the dictionary

  1. shonikers
  2. shonikker
  3. shonikkers
  4. Shoniqua
  5. shonk
  6. shonkier
  7. shonkies
  8. shonkiest
  9. shonkily
  10. shonkiness
  11. shonkinite

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