shambling 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of shamblingnext
as in lumbering

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shambling

2 of 2

verb

present participle of shamble
as in shuffling
to move heavily or clumsily disconsolate and exhausted after losing the match, the wrestler shambled toward the locker room

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shambling
  1. shuffling
  2. lumpish
  3. stomping
  4. unsteady
Verb
  • But the $12 billion decline in his fortune has more to do with asset shuffling than stock price movement.
    Julie Goldenberg, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • James has been shuffling back and forth between the NBA and the G League.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of shuffling
Adjective
  • Because both actors look like lumpish proletarian versions of Ingmar Bergman stars — Alma Pöysti, radiant yet benumbed, plays Ansa like a dish-towel Bibi Andersson, and Jussi Vatanen could be the schlump brother of Max von Sydow (with a dollop of Ryan Gosling).
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 May 2023
  • Their bodies range from eely, jawless lampreys to flattened flounders to huge, lumpish ocean sunfish.
    Bob Holmes, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2018
Definition of lumpish
Verb
  • On June 1, she was charged with beating and stomping a woman inside Webb’s Bronx apartment building that day.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The pounding of Mary’s heartbeat becomes the stomping feet of the crowd at the high school.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of stomping
Adjective
  • Not only did the competition not see the future of payments through the unsteady rise of PayPal, neither did the talented within Silicon Valley.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • After a slightly unsteady start, the 60-year-old governor found his grove for a spell once Vance’s fake story about the legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio allegedly eating pets was brought up.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of unsteady
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