Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Moving clumsily; slovenly.
- Evasive; prevaricating.
- noun The act of one who shuffles, in any sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb In a shuffling manner.
- adjective Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
- adjective Evasive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
shuffle . - noun
Action of the verb to shuffle. - noun The noise created by something moving about.
- adjective Of or relating to that which shuffles; tending to shuffle.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of mixing cards haphazardly
- noun walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
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Examples
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As rare visitors holler his name, a slow shuffling comes from the dirt floor inside.
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As rare visitors holler his name, a slow shuffling comes from the dirt floor inside.
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With junior left tackle Landon Bradley out for the next few weeks due to a broken hand, some shuffling is underway to fill his spot in the starting lineup.
More players to be used on offensive, defensive lines against UNC Steve Yanda 2010
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The automatic wallpaper shuffling is cool, but I've found choosing a single image to use on the desktop to be problematic.
Windows 7′s Best Underhyped Features | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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As rare visitors holler his name, a slow shuffling comes from the dirt floor inside.
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As rare visitors holler his name, a slow shuffling comes from the dirt floor inside.
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Nowadays, a lot of trading, swapping and shuffling is going on in the “Twilight” universe, starting with the director of the hit films.
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This kind of paper shuffling is the same sort of thing that corporations do to screw over common people all the time.
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The motivating factor in all this player shuffling is free agency.
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We are not told, but such symptoms as there are do not suggest that any very extensive shuffling is going on.
Freedom of the Park 1945
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