_wonky_ = "shady"?

[Dan Goncharoff]

What made you think the original post had "wonky" mean shady? I think
it could be read to mean wonky.

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On Apr 17, 2012, at 10:06 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I understand "wonky" as "not quite right", ie, a cause for suspicion, not
>> necessarily a judgment of character.
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> The clearly far-less-than-obvious, apparently, point of the original
> post was that _wonky_ is *possibly* being *used* to mean something
> *like* "shady" *in this instance* and *not* to claim that le tout
> monde now agrees that _wonky_ *has* such a meaning and here is
> evidence in support of that claim.
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