Meaning of wonkish | Babel Free

Definitions

Nerdy; bookish; having the qualities of a wonk.

informal

Examples

“According to Greer, the voting classes were ready for someone very much like the wonkish Clinton, with his devotion to "the issues."”

“Hillary may have been too wonkish, and Palin not wonkish enough, but they have normalized white females as political candidates for the nation.”

“Being a renegade Islamo-punk had run its course, but now I answered brothers' questions in a wonkish intellectual way, ducking and weaving around the truth claims.”

“Etzler was a follower of the wonkish French utopian Charles Fourier, who promised that the scientific reinvention of nature would transmute the saltwater into lemonade.”

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