shambolic

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He described the current allowances system for MPs as "shambolic" and in need of urgent replacement.

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  1. adjective Chiefly British Slang Disorderly or chaotic: "[The country's] transportation system is in a shambolic state” (London Sunday Times).

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  • His ability to not just make a silk purse of a race from a sow's ear of a shambolic, last minute start has been amazing. —  YBW News
  • Conservative party leader David Cameron pledged to fight to keep alive the £188m plans for Blackpool and The Fylde College - suffering, he said, a "shambolic" delay - as well as helping regeneration in the resort and improving the area's transport links.
  • He also described the possible collapse of Blackpool and The Fylde College's plans to build a new campus on Rigby Road in central Blackpool and a new nautical college in Fleetwood, after funding from The Learning Skills Council dried up, "shambolic" and "appalling".
  • Question: The property management company for our block of flats is shambolic - filthy floors, poor maintenance, rip-off charges - and every one of the 15 flats (we're all leasehold owners) wants to do something about it. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • In their semi-shambolic onstage booting, they recall the apparent anarchy of The Pogues, though playing songs that are mainly rooted in Eastern Europe, with odd smatterings of other ethnic forms, all jogged out with punk attitude. —  The Stirrer
 

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  1. Probably from alteration of shambles.
 

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