Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An awkward, clumsy, irregular pace or gait.
- Characterized by an awkward, irregular, clumsy, weak-kneed motion or gait: as, a shambling trot; shambling legs.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of shamble.
- adj. Who walks while dragging or shuffling the feet.
- n. An awkward, irregular gait.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Characterized by an awkward, irregular pace
- n. An awkward, irregular gait.
WordNet 3.0
- 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A stranger of about fourteen was walking towards them, or perhaps "shambling" would be”
“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.”
“Then maybe the shambling undead Superman can rest in peace.”
“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.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shambling’.
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2042 more...
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...Odysseus, sea, Athene, goddess, land, Achaean, wind, wave, Ithaca, lead, Poseidon, mortal and 732 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 566 more...
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Gygax's Glossary
In hesitant beginning of a tribute to the man who—before Nabokov or Joyce or anyone 1000 times more exalted—infected me with a fever for language.
psionic, prismatic, gelatinous, dweomer, initiative, kobold, geas, shambling, gibbering, cuirass, halberd, ioun stone and 4 more...
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erinnbatykefer's Words
ewer, lace, grenadine, wick, haruspex, augur, distal, proximal, supine, labyrinthine, rivers, monongahela and 176 more...
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Winter's Bone vocabulary
Study list of difficult words from Daniel Woodrell's novel Winter's Bone. In reverse order: start at the bottom to see words from the beginning of the novel!
plaid, lazy susan, lope, furtive, dour, scamper, hard-boiled, implacable, dainty, stomp, resignation, crank and 138 more...
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The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Words gatherd while reading The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.
eiderdown, sowbelly, shambling, linthead, bohunk, lingeringly, undervest, rosette, scroughe, gramophone, nair, tousle and 28 more...
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Staggers vocab: The Heart is a Lonel...
asylum, douse, erratic, immaculate, languorous, proprietor, scimitar, shambling, soberly, sullen, uncanny, wan and 8 more...
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some of my favorites
flourish, oddment, persnickety, obfuscate, folly, moxie, flimflam, fisticuffs, whicker, sibilance, filch, succor and 76 more...
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Verbz
pizazzy verbage
obtruded, rootle, pink, retrofit, photoshopped, transubstantiate, gazump, shambling
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