shambolic
[sham-bol-ik]
- very disorganized; messy or confused: I’ve had a shambolic year, the worst ever.
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Origin of shambolic
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It may be shambolic, shameless emotional grandstanding, but it is oddly moving, despite the ruthless history edit.
This is just more symbolic (and shambolic) politics of rage.
This shambolic mess of a man in Florida may be able to tell Selig whether his testing regimen is working at all.
In the pantheon of self-destructive, shambolic, rock-star dandies, Johnny Thunders is the ne plus ultra.
shambolic
- informal completely disorganized; chaotic
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Word Origin
C20: irregularly formed from shambles
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Word Origin and History for shambolic
adj.
1961, apparently from shamble in the sense "disorder" (see shambles), perhaps on model of symbolic.
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