shonky

Etymology
From 1970s; possibly from dialectal English.

Adjective

 * 1)  Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable; deviously dishonest, fraudulent.
 * 2) * 1986, Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, ANZJS: The Australian & New Zealand Journal of Sociology, Volume 22, |%22shonkiest%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22shonkier%22|%22shonkiest%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=HxmPdlH1-3&sig=LevP-2zkmMZsQ8zaelyLcNTAkZA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NLxFUOufEo3OmgXVvoDgDA&redir_esc=y 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).

Noun

 * 1)  A dishonest person.