shamblyadj.
/ˈʃambli/ colloquial.
That shambles, shambling; awkward, ungainly; disorganized, ramshackle, rickety.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [adjective] > of inferior quality or value or appearance
poorc1300
vile1526
mangya1529
fine1565
palterlya1637
scrubby1754
nice1798
shabby1805
waff-like1808
neat1824
chronic1861
tacky1862
shamblya1937
tatty1940
low-rent1966
scrungy1974
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward
stubblea1300
lubber?1515
awkward1530
unwieldy1530
lubberlike1572
unwieldsome1579
lubberly1580
looby1582
wieldy1588
clumsy1597
ungainly1611
unqueme1611
untowardly1611
clouter-likea1624
hip-shot1642
loobish1648
loobily1655
bumble-arsed1661
clouterly1675
lubbard1679
fumbling1681
sinistrousa1682
maladroit1685
shammockinga1704
ungain1710
splay-footed1716
gawky1759
hobbledehoyish1812
uncouthly1821
nunting1836
shammocky1841
numb1854
awkwardish1860
slummocky?1861
numb-footed1867
gawkish1876
flat-footed1899
brontosaurian1909
shamblya1937
slew-foot1945
ham-footed1960
klutzy1961
dorkus1979
a1937 W. E. Llewellyn in Partridge Dict. Slang 750/1 Their hands were in a grab half-hook, always, and their shoulders shambly.
1958 L. Whishaw As far as you'll take Me xii. 193 There are a few little shacks..and a shambly village hall.
1973 J. Burrows Like Evening Gone i. 16 Arnold came in first, very limp..and shambly.
1973 T. Morrison Sula (1974) ii. 106 It was small..and so shambly, and..it would have been better if I had gotten the dust out from under the bed.
1985 L. Kennedy Airman & Carpenter (1986) i. i. 29 The banker Dwight Morrow, a small rather shambly man.
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adj.a1937