(v. i.) To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.
(v. i.) To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble.
(v. t.) To mangle.
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Shamble
Definition:
(n.) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.
(n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.
(n.) A place for slaughtering animals for meat.
(v. i.) To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.
Example Sentences:
(1) Staff had to make paper records of 999 calls in what one ambulance crew member described as “a shambles”.
(2) David Winnick, the MP for Walsall North, said: "None of [May's] excuses can explain away the sheer incompetence and shambles that have occurred on her watch."
(3) The leader of the RMT rail union, Bob Crow, said: "The whole sorry and expensive shambles of rail privatisation has been dragged into the spotlight this morning and instead of re-running this expensive circus, the west coast route should be renationalised on a permanent basis."
(4) It would be a travesty if their first experience of democracy was this shambles.
(5) Dan Barron blames this result on the maroon jerseys, while Greg Phillips nominates the theme to Ronnie Corbett vehicle Sorry as the perfect Hazlehurst soundtrack for this shambles.
(6) Ball's camp, meanwhile, denied that he was seeking a right of veto over the non-executive chairman, describing the process as "a shambles" in which the former BSkyB executive was presented with a fait accompli rather than being properly consulted about who he should work with.
(7) In his piece, Gove criticises historians and TV programmes that denigrate patriotism and courage by depicting the war as a "misbegotten shambles".
(8) The government’s overhaul of primary-school assessments has turned into a shambles, according to the teachers who will have to carry them out from next month, with complaints that seven- and 11-year-old pupils find the new standards too hard and too confusing.
(9) As Longford (Channel 4), he seemed to be playing not just the shambling man but his shining soul.
(10) Philip Hammond needs to get a grip and sort this shambles out."
(11) He can build on material we have collected but reaching a fair outline in three months seems impossible – but I don’t think that is his objective anyway.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Christopher Pyne says Labor has left the Coalition with a shambles and a $1.2bn shortfall.
(12) One publisher, unwilling to speak on the record, agreed, saying that "the consensus does seem to be that the Booker this year is a bit of a shambles", with the panel "lacking in authority" and "a bit confused about what the prize is for".
(13) Lloyd George, Gladstone, Churchill - he reluctantly resigned at 80 in 1955 after a four-year rearguard action – Thatcher of course, Macmillan too, were shambles.
(14) Photograph: Fabio De Paola Roxanne McMurray, spokesperson for the advocacy group SOS Women’s Services, told Background Briefing that following last year’s reforms, services across the state were in a shambles.
(15) It was on the 37th lap of the 61-lap race that a man was seen shambling along the side of the track on the straight near turn 13.
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(17) Dromey called the law "a shambles", benefiting neither candidates nor electors.
(18) My local authority is a shambles, so the sooner control is taken away from local government and administered nationally, the better, but I do worry about how they are going to work it all out.
(19) "Partly because I want to see Will Hughes in the top flight by getting there rather than waving from a Manchester subs bench, partly because they're far less of an expensive shambles than QPR, partly because Redknapps annoy me but mainly so it's really easy for me to watch Everton once a year."
(20) Ministers seem to be working hard to make their new police and crime commissioner elections a shambles – providing too little information, costly elections in cold dark November, the helpline not working , ballot papers reprinted .