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Definition of shambolic in English: shambolicadjective ʃamˈbɒlɪkˌʃæmˈbɑlɪk British informal Chaotic, disorganized, or mismanaged. 〈非正式，主英〉混乱的，杂乱无章的；管理不善的 the department's shambolic accounting 该部门杂乱无章的会计工作。 Example sentencesExamples - We looked limp and pallid and shambolic by comparison.
- As the lights went up, eyes focused in on a shambolic, drunken sprawling mess.
- His sophomore effort is ambitious and diverse, suggesting Skinner's shambolic charm is here to stay.
- Touristy but attractive, the shambolic market lends an appealing air of bustle, while the Douro slips by silently towards the Atlantic.
- Lambasted after throwing away a two-goal lead against Austria in their opening group six match on Saturday, England went into the match knowing another shambolic display could cost Sven-Goran Eriksson his job as head coach.
- The Beach Boys are a good reference point: At their most endearing, the Band have the shambolic charm of early 70s Beach Boys records.
- Despite his shambolic demeanour, Doyle has been riding the Asian new wave pretty shrewdly.
- The result is admittedly shambolic at times but leaves the distinct feeling that, rather than listening to a jingle-laden radio show, you've popped round to a friend's house to listen to records that they like and think you might like.
- The armies of the surrounding Arab countries (with the exception of the British-led Jordanian Arab Legion), were shambolic and hopeless.
- It is early days, but it is possible that this kind of inclusivity is exactly what our notoriously shambolic film industry needs.
- Despite the self-deprecation, both outfits do a fair imitation of rock stars, and while Fake Mistake is certainly shambolic, it's also a rewarding listen - assured, smart, and inventive.
- We pass the school bus and reach the beginnings of Troy - a security gate with a man drinking coffee - and then I see the Horse: grey, singed metal, dwarfing our van, strangely shambolic.
- He was fine before he went on stage but, once he was there, he transformed into this shambolic drug-addled circus freak.
- Eventually, it became apparent that being shambolic and rambling was their sole raison d' être.
- The zombies themselves are well-realised in the vein of George A Romero's classic monsters - as Pegg himself says, they're so shambolic and endearingly rubbish that you could spend and hour in a room just dodging one.
- Living up to some shambolic ideal of its own invention, The Replacements influenced virtually every band emerging in the early '90s, both in its punk-informed songs and in its career arc.
- It could be, perhaps, that the genre is still seen as monolithic and shambolic, Hildas in horn-hats and breastplates.
- An idiosyncratic mix of deliberately shambolic skits, sketches, stunts and spoofs, interrupted by fervent bickering, the show appeared intermittently from 1987 to huge public and critical acclaim.
- The groundbreaking Sicilian work loses all sense of tragedy in Christ Church's shambolic production, which even manages to ruin Pirandello's subtle jibes at traditional theatre.
- Crash The Party is a shambolic anthem that recalls the jerky, off-kilter energy of Hot Hot Heat in their prime, while there's a warm glow surrounding the slightly more stripped down melodies of the softly-spoken Let It Rain.
Synonyms chaotic, disorganized, muddled, confused, in (total) disarray, at sixes and sevens, unsystematic, haphazard, hit-or-miss, scrappy, fragmented, inefficient informal all over the place British informal all over the shop North American informal all over the map, all over the lot
Derivativesadverb British informal I scratched my head, feeling my hair stick up shambolically. Example sentencesExamples - In real life terms it required a hell of a lot of astuteness to keep the thing alive, even shambolically.
- Sadly, it will be greeted with weary resignation by Swindonians, who have watched the authority lurch shambolically from one crisis to another in recent years.
- Downing Street last night tried to gloss over Lord Butler's scathing, but tactfully phrased verdict on its shambolically informal style of government.
- ‘Football is a shambolically run business,’ he says, ‘run by greedy and vain people who seem to act only in self-interest.’
Origin1970s: from shambles, probably on the pattern of symbolic. Rhymesalcoholic, anabolic, apostolic, bucolic, carbolic, chocoholic, colic, diabolic, embolic, frolic, hydraulic, hyperbolic, melancholic, metabolic, parabolic, rollick, shopaholic, symbolic, vitriolic, workaholic Definition of shambolic in US English: shambolicadjectiveˌʃæmˈbɑlɪkˌSHamˈbälik British informal Chaotic, disorganized, or mismanaged. 〈非正式，主英〉混乱的，杂乱无章的；管理不善的 the department's shambolic accounting 该部门杂乱无章的会计工作。 Example sentencesExamples - It is early days, but it is possible that this kind of inclusivity is exactly what our notoriously shambolic film industry needs.
- Eventually, it became apparent that being shambolic and rambling was their sole raison d' être.
- We pass the school bus and reach the beginnings of Troy - a security gate with a man drinking coffee - and then I see the Horse: grey, singed metal, dwarfing our van, strangely shambolic.
- His sophomore effort is ambitious and diverse, suggesting Skinner's shambolic charm is here to stay.
- The zombies themselves are well-realised in the vein of George A Romero's classic monsters - as Pegg himself says, they're so shambolic and endearingly rubbish that you could spend and hour in a room just dodging one.
- The groundbreaking Sicilian work loses all sense of tragedy in Christ Church's shambolic production, which even manages to ruin Pirandello's subtle jibes at traditional theatre.
- Touristy but attractive, the shambolic market lends an appealing air of bustle, while the Douro slips by silently towards the Atlantic.
- We looked limp and pallid and shambolic by comparison.
- The Beach Boys are a good reference point: At their most endearing, the Band have the shambolic charm of early 70s Beach Boys records.
- Despite the self-deprecation, both outfits do a fair imitation of rock stars, and while Fake Mistake is certainly shambolic, it's also a rewarding listen - assured, smart, and inventive.
- Crash The Party is a shambolic anthem that recalls the jerky, off-kilter energy of Hot Hot Heat in their prime, while there's a warm glow surrounding the slightly more stripped down melodies of the softly-spoken Let It Rain.
- He was fine before he went on stage but, once he was there, he transformed into this shambolic drug-addled circus freak.
- The armies of the surrounding Arab countries (with the exception of the British-led Jordanian Arab Legion), were shambolic and hopeless.
- Despite his shambolic demeanour, Doyle has been riding the Asian new wave pretty shrewdly.
- The result is admittedly shambolic at times but leaves the distinct feeling that, rather than listening to a jingle-laden radio show, you've popped round to a friend's house to listen to records that they like and think you might like.
- As the lights went up, eyes focused in on a shambolic, drunken sprawling mess.
- An idiosyncratic mix of deliberately shambolic skits, sketches, stunts and spoofs, interrupted by fervent bickering, the show appeared intermittently from 1987 to huge public and critical acclaim.
- It could be, perhaps, that the genre is still seen as monolithic and shambolic, Hildas in horn-hats and breastplates.
- Living up to some shambolic ideal of its own invention, The Replacements influenced virtually every band emerging in the early '90s, both in its punk-informed songs and in its career arc.
- Lambasted after throwing away a two-goal lead against Austria in their opening group six match on Saturday, England went into the match knowing another shambolic display could cost Sven-Goran Eriksson his job as head coach.
Synonyms chaotic, disorganized, muddled, confused, in disarray, in total disarray, at sixes and sevens, unsystematic, haphazard, hit-or-miss, scrappy, fragmented, inefficient
Origin1970s: from shambles, probably on the pattern of symbolic. |