shambling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of shamble

comparative more shambling · superlative most shambling

1. Who walks while dragging or shuffling the feet.

   a shambling giant of a man

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   moving with a shambling gait

   If there was any magic in the video clips, it was a weak spell. Lurching between slow zooms and jerky cuts, these videos brought vaguely aspirational images to uneasy, shambling life: petals on a bathroom floor; animals lumbering through a dewy garden; an unmanned treadmill running in an otherwise empty penthouse suite.

   2025 October 16, Mitch Therieau, “Taylor Swift Is Our Biggest Cinematic Universe. But the Magic Is Fading.”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

plural shamblings

1. An awkward, irregular gait.