shambling
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Sometimes that’s because the individual work is bland, while elsewhere its pertinence to the shambling theme is stretched to the breaking point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
She seemed to be everything that I, a shambling, spit up-stained wreck, was not.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024
The post, from someone claiming to work at Boeing, described the production of Boeing's 737 planes as "a rambling, shambling, disaster waiting to happen".
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2024
This was the shambling, full system malfunction of a body and brain that could no longer outrun its own basic need for rest.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2023
When they had hidden the treasures in a nearby cave they separated, she to summon Telemachus home, he, whom her art had turned into a shambling ragged old man, to seek the swineherd.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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