Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shackly; rickety.
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- verb Present participle of
shackle .
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Examples
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In twenty years time, the idea of shackling oneself to a desk and squinting at a screen to read the NYT will seem laughably quaint and rather sad.
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And we think that the shackling was a vexatious act.
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It is to the novelist's credit that he preserves a degree of sympathy for those whom poverty pushes towards piracy, as well as for the teenagers who are brainwashed into jihadism and whose fate, should they refuse to take orders, may entail shackling and torture.
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It is to the novelist's credit that he preserves a degree of sympathy for those whom poverty pushes towards piracy, as well as for the teenagers who are brainwashed into jihadism and whose fate, should they refuse to take orders, may entail shackling and torture.
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It is to the novelist's credit that he preserves a degree of sympathy for those whom poverty pushes towards piracy, as well as for the teenagers who are brainwashed into jihadism and whose fate, should they refuse to take orders, may entail shackling and torture.
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The Women in Prison Project in New York City calls shackling
RHRealityCheck.org 2010
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According to media reports, Miller introduced harsh interrogation methods to Guantánamo, such as shackling detainees into stress positions and using guard dogs to exploit what the former head commander in Iraq Lt.
Sensitive Guantánamo Bay Manual Leaked Through Wiki Site 2007
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Many of these methods -- such as shackling detainees to the floor for hours in painful positions, keeping them shivering cold during interrogations, grilling them for 16 hours nonstop, waking them up by moving them every few hours, using loud music and strobe lights -- had been officially approved as "humane," the Pentagon report explained.
02/07/2006 2006
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Azarov reiterated that difficult negotiations with Russia are in progress, as the contracts for gas supplies to Ukraine are 'shackling'.
forUm forUm 2010
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Azarov reiterated that difficult negotiations with Russia are in progress, as the contracts for gas supplies to Ukraine are 'shackling'.
forUm forUm 2010
vanishedone commented on the word shackling
n. A small shack. Perhaps.
January 18, 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word shackling
(adjective) - Rickety; ramshackle. U.S. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1919
April 22, 2018