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  • adverb In a shonky manner.

Etymologies

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shonky +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Just as we're about to write him off as an acquisitive, greedy little wretch, he turns Santa himself, proudly bearing a shonkily wrapped present to his mystified parents; not turning bad, in fact, but turning good.

    Heaven knows I'm miserable over this John Lewis ad 2011

  • The extra dimension cheekily tacked on to the other three is the shonkily named process AromaScope.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

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