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shamblingly

shamblingly adverb: with a shambling motion.

Adverb

shamblingly (comparative more shamblingly, superlative most shamblingly)

  1. With a shambling motion.
    • The band developed its sound, shamblingly at first, on the road, in an era before thousands of blog or YouTube users could form an opinion of a band based on some MySpace demos and a duff early gig in Tacoma.2008 May 18, R J Smith, “Death Cab Is Up for the Long Haul”, in New York Times

Forms of shamblingly

comparativemore shamblingly
superlativemost shamblingly

Origin of shamblingly

From shambling + -ly.

Questions about shamblingly

What does shamblingly mean?
Shamblingly means with a shambling motion.
What part of speech is shamblingly?
Shamblingly is an adverb.

Words near shamblingly in the dictionary

  1. shambler
  2. shamblers
  3. shambles
  4. Shamblin
  5. shambling
  6. shamblingly
  7. shamblings
  8. Shamblins
  9. shambly
  10. shambo
  11. shambock

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