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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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
"Two beggar cronies," muttered Felipe, in Spanish, as he closed the door after they had vanished shufflingly into old Spooner's room.
From Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win by Burt L. Standish
Perhaps I may go shufflingly at first; for I was never before walked in trammels; yet, I shall drudge and moil at constancy, till I have worn off the hitching in my pace.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
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
