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Adjective
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This is the bright-side scenario of course, one that would require the recent wobbly action in consumer cyclicals and consumer-credit names to reverse or at least get no worse.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
2 Oct. 2025 -
Heat players tell war stories of wobbly knees.—
Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
1 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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The shambling Cliff and the spiky Didi make for an odd couple.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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At the same time, no one in metal was funnier, more in touch with his own bathos, more post–Spinal Tap, in a sense, than Ozzy, especially in his shambling-paterfamilias incarnation on MTV’s reality show The Osbournes.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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House of Guinness tends to be wise about the ways both business and family are built over an unsteady and ever-changing series of negotiations for power and status.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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What the map did not show was that few hikers attempt this route due to its exposure and the extra time, water, and stamina required of a lengthy and strenuous Class II scramble up and down a trio of ever-taller unnamed 13,000-foot mountains of loose talus and unsteady granite blocks.—
Ted Katauskas,
Outside,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Lubberly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lubberly. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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