Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
Who's this gimp with a wonky eye / I don't know but his lips are dry
Feeble, shaky or rickety.
It seemed likely that he would need First Aid when those wonky steps yielded, at length, to the well-known law of gravitation.
Technically worded, in the style of jargon.
Climate change is an issue that might lend itself more easily to thematic framing in the news, due to the often highly technical and wonky language required to explain it.
A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]
From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English wancol (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).
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