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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An awkward, clumsy, irregular pace or gait.
  2. Characterized by an awkward, irregular, clumsy, weak-kneed motion or gait: as, a shambling trot; shambling legs.

Wiktionary

  1. v. present participle of shamble.
  2. adj. Who walks while dragging or shuffling the feet.
  3. n. An awkward, irregular gait.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Characterized by an awkward, irregular pace
  2. n. An awkward, irregular gait.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

Examples

  • “Hell, if the characters know to call the shambling undead 'zombies' (and they do), then they ought to have the good sense to aim high.”

    October 18th, 2005

  • “Bill Clinton's first years in office are typically described as shambling, unfocused seminars and late-night bull sessions, with flurries of activity, lots of games of hearts and little discipline.”

    Daily Kos

  • “Bill represents a kind of shambling irony; he's heroic and disreputable at the same time," says his friend and fellow Ghostbuster Harold Ramis, who directed "Groundhog Day.”

    Newsweek: A Groundhog Has His Day

  • “A stranger of about fourteen was walking towards them, or perhaps "shambling" would be”

    A harum-scarum schoolgirl

  • “That Heard renders him as nothing more than a kind of shambling nice guy subverts his touted mystique, deprives the production of a magneticcentral character, and begs the question of why we should be upset about his awful fate.”

    Chicago Reader

  • “Then maybe the shambling undead Superman can rest in peace.”

    What Price Super-Heroics?

  • “Those who remember Robin Ince's Book Club – a shambling, ultra-alternative cabaret that promoted unusual approaches to stand-up, including most recently Josie Long – will no doubt remember Aussie visitor Asher Treleaven.”

    The Guardian: This week's new live comedy

  • “DAILY DELANEY DOWNER - At a time when the shambling economy dominates the national political debate, a tiny Midwestern state little harmed by the Great Recession gets to decide who will lead the discussion.”

    The Huffington Post: HUFFPOST HILL - Rick Perry Campaign Failing To Uphold Candidate's Lofty Morals

  • “But when, at one point, he makes a soul-killing choice to follow the Bureau's plan, the shambling, old-man gait with which he ends the scene says what he can't bear to speak aloud.”

    The Washington Post: Dance's starring role in 'The Adjustment Bureau'

  • “For years, Colbert has made no bones about the freaky stuff in the world that we need to jumping out of our own skin over on an hourly basis, until we join one another in the streets, one insane horde of adrenaline-choked wrecks, shambling indiscriminately toward an uncertain future.”

    The Huffington Post: Rally To Restore Sanity's Roots: Colbert's Fear Of Bears, 'Godless Killing Machines' (VIDEO)

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