shuffling
adjective
moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
shufflingly
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a word derived from
shuffling.
Example Sentences
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At last there came down the broad stair and out into the court a figure in the habit of a monk, who hurried shufflingly across the stones to the grim row of brown-robed men.
From The Strong Arm by Robert Barr
There is no firm footstep heard amongst them as they shufflingly take their places.
From London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes
They were even now creeping 58 shufflingly about overhead on their bare feet, hunting for their respective best shoes and stockings and other garments, and scrapping in loud whispers.
From Cloudy Jewel by Grace Livingston Hill
In the Rector's study the labourer was speaking, standing shufflingly on the margin of the Turkey carpet.
From The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Vernon bowed to the Professor and apologized to him shufflingly and rapidly, incoherently, and with a red face; which induced Mrs. Mountstuart to scan Laetitia's.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
