shuffling

[shuhf-ling]

adjective

1. moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.

2. prevaricating; evasive.

Other Word Forms

• shufflingly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of shuffling¹

First recorded in 1570–80; shuffle + -ing ²

Example Sentences

The challenge isn’t just shuffling or adding talent; it’s doing so without overcorrecting.

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But all this shuffling is happening a year after those very voters jolted state Democrats.

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Whether you’re towering over surfers in Huge or shuffling along the beach in Low, ERL has created a flip-flop height for any occasion.

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Offstage, he was a doddering, stammering dad shuffling around rooms bustling with yapping tiny dogs urinating everywhere.

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But he’s respected on the world stage, Hutson said, in a way the shuffling Biden was not.

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