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shambling
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Definition:shuffling and/or dragging, of one's gait
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At the edge of the clearing a tall, narrow-shouldered man of forty in a red shirt, in patched trousers that had been a gentleman's, and in high boots, was slouching along with a lazy, shambling step.
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The poet Ampleforth shambled into the cell. The door clanged shut again.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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