wobbly
adjective
shaky; unsteady.
Wobblies
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pluralof Wobbly.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The movement borrowed heavily from the civil rights movement, radical labor groups like the Wobblies and the anti-industrial Luddites of 19th-century England.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
Neighborhood groups, many of them members of the Wobblies or the Communist Party, in the 1930s physically prevented sheriff's departments from evicting families.
From Salon ● May 4, 2021
The Wobblies, as Rye notes, are “the one big union that took anyone as a member: Finnish logger, Negro seamstress, Indian ranch hand, even floater like them.”
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2020
“The Cold Millions” doesn’t romanticize what successes the Wobblies might have achieved in the face of lawyers, wealthy businessmen and assorted skullduggery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2020
Twenty of the "hard-boiled Wobblies" were removed to Seattle shortly after this, but it was no trouble for the men to gain their demands from that time on.
From The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry by Walker C. Smith
