shambling

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A shambling, awkward figure,

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  1. An awkward, clumsy, irregular pace or gait. By that shambling in his walk, it should be my rich old banker, Gomez, whom I knew at Barcelona. Dryden, Spanish Friar, i. 2.
  2. Characterized by an awkward, irregular, clumsy, weak-kneed motion or gait: as, a shambling trot; shambling legs. He was a tall, shambling youth. Lamb, Christ's Hospital.

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  • Even as their supposed peers-shambling corpse-bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, and U2-maintained (at least some of) their popularity at the expense of their relevancy and critical appeal, R.E.M. never strayed from their —  Murmurs.com
  • I put out a pool that spawns zombies - shambling, moaning fake avatars that lurch after the nearest person and try to bite them. —  Reuters/Second Life » Second Life
  • Few saw Michel Gondry's shambling, amiable charmer when it opened last February; critically, it was widely dismissed. —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
  • Padding the QTE segments are an endless series of shell-shocked environments filled with shambling, zombie-like Carriers. —  1UP RSS feed
  • Beginning with the shambling, Pavementesque "Very Weird," the template is laid before us.
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