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Wonky

adjective

Turned or twisted toward one side. Synonyms: askew, awry, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff. "His wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"

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