English Dictionary

shonky

形容詞

オーストラリア英語 ニュージーランド英語 イギリス英語 くだけた表現

(Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal) Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable; deviously dishonest, fraudulent.

日本語の意味

粗悪な品質で、信頼性に欠ける / でたらめな、ずる賢く不正な、詐欺的な

I wouldn't buy that used car; the mechanic said it's shonky and likely needs a lot of work.

整備士があの中古車は粗悪でおそらく多くの修理が必要だと言ったので、買わないほうがいい。

意味（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).

shonkier （ comparative ）

shonkiest （ superlative ）