shonkyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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shonky (comparative shonkier, superlative shonkiest)

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

     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).

   • 2000, Australian Senate, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 13548,

     The committee heard much evidence that this is a farce, yet this government have continued to try to pretend that their forecast, based on the shonkiest of assumptions—their model, with the shonkiest of assumptions—is really what is going to happen.

   • 2002, Markus Zusak, The Messenger, page 158,

     He might be a dole-bludger, a gambler and have the shonkiest tattoo in the world on his arm, but he'll agree to almost anything.

   • 2008 April 15, Daniel Martin, “How will Battlestar Galactica end?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     From no-brow beginnings, when BSG [Battlestar Galactica] still had to prove it had outwitted the shonky source material, the show gained cult respect and a few more viewers by the second year.