shellshocked

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The rest of the book and war he spends being shuttlecocked from plyboard office to plyboard office, receiving but failing to respond to The Treatment.

From Time Magazine Archive

It takes two to do more things than make a bargain, and to battledore love without having it shuttlecocked back isn't much fun.

From Kitty Canary by Bosher, Kate Langley

"Yes, if the phrase is to be shuttlecocked between us!"

From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace

I'm fond of Robin, but of late she's been even more energetic and emphatic than usual, and I feel like I'm being battledored and shuttlecocked whenever I see her.

From The Man in Lonely Land by Bosher, Kate Langley

So it paints the wretchedness of anxiety as ever shuttlecocked about between hopes and fears, sometimes up on the crest of a vain dream of good, sometimes down in the trough of an imaginary evil.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander