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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, vulgar) Unnecessary or pretentious noodling (messing around)..
The core band, meanwhile, had clearly honed their chops well on stage; Ashton's lead guitar work avoids both wankery and simplicity […]
Their visas entailed bribes and a certain amount of bureaucratic wankery, but were approved quickly enough.
There are moments of static beauty, haunting sparseness, and pointless wankery, sometimes all in the same tune.
Sub Pop was different, they were arty and more into darker, weirder stuff like Big Black. K was pretty much the opposite of that kind of macho wankery.
Use wankery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wankery means (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, vulgar) Unnecessary or pretentious noodling (messing around)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The core band, meanwhile, had clearly honed their chops well on stage; Ashton's lead guitar work avoids both wankery and simplicity […]
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