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  • adjective Having a rhythm which encourages shuffling (mild raising of one's feet)
  • adjective Similar to the pattern of a shuffle (the mild unparticular movement of one's feet)

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Examples

  • Charlie had taken off his sunglasses and squinted straight ahead into the sun, like some sort of stoic cowboy, and Sam looked so panicked and shuffly I felt sure he was trying to hide a giant boner.

    Every little thing in the world Nina de Gramont 2010

  • Charlie had taken off his sunglasses and squinted straight ahead into the sun, like some sort of stoic cowboy, and Sam looked so panicked and shuffly I felt sure he was trying to hide a giant boner.

    Every little thing in the world Nina de Gramont 2010

  • He won't eat any, he's on some kind of weight loss challenge with the shuffly uniformed dudes at work and it perplexes me: he's already cut, his arm muscles rippling under a short-sleeved black golf shirt, torso long and lean with barbells and push ups.

    blog: February 2009 2009

  • He won't eat any, he's on some kind of weight loss challenge with the shuffly uniformed dudes at work and it perplexes me: he's already cut, his arm muscles rippling under a short-sleeved black golf shirt, torso long and lean with barbells and push ups.

    blog: Nice when no one is looking 2009

  • He ate lunch in the underground mess with Eric Deming, a tall shuffly man in his early thirties, a couple of years younger than Matt, and one of the bombheads.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • He ate lunch in the underground mess with Eric Deming, a tall shuffly man in his early thirties, a couple of years younger than Matt, and one of the bombheads.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • He ate lunch in the underground mess with Eric Deming, a tall shuffly man in his early thirties, a couple of years younger than Matt, and one of the bombheads.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Listen to it with fresh ears, though, and the song's shuffly charm hits you like an anvil.

    Watch The Charlatans You’re So Pretty We’re So Pretty Video 2006

  • He looks slightly more bent and slightly more shuffly.

    CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2005 2005

  • He did come in looking fairly, I think, slower, more shuffly than when I saw him come into his initial hearing in the summer of 2004.

    CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2005 2005

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