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Adjective
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Consumer sentiment soured in October as a government shutdown threatens to weaken a wobbly economy beset by an uptick in inflation and a sharp slowdown of hiring, fresh data on Friday showed.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 Oct. 2025 -
The film’s greatest feat isn’t its wobbly characterizations, but its setting — the stretches of strip malls and chain businesses that make up most of America but rarely get showcased onscreen so thoughtfully.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The contrast with Durant’s lumpish Johnny makes no sense.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Oct. 2024
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Because both actors look like lumpish proletarian versions of Ingmar Bergman stars — Alma Pöysti, radiant yet benumbed, plays Ansa like a dish-towel Bibi Andersson, and Jussi Vatanen could be the schlump brother of Max von Sydow (with a dollop of Ryan Gosling).—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
23 May 2023
Adjective
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These movies—including the seven-hour-long Sátántangó, a centerpiece of which is a shambling dance in a barroom—often swap the meandering sentence for a single camera shot that lasts 10 minutes or more.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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Once the beyond-the-grave comeuppance arrives, this short is just standard shambling ghouls and raining blood.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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The shock to Hal and Kate’s equilibrium, already unsteady to begin with, is even more rewarding.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
16 Oct. 2025
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The senator seemed unsteady, but got up and kept walking with the help of his detail.—
Lauren Peller,
ABC News,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Lubberly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lubberly. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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