How To Use Shambolic In A Sentence
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The problem is not where it now stands, but the shambolic, discreditable way in which it got there.
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In the days leading up to their defence review and overall government cuts package, David Cameron, George Osborne and the defence secretary, Liam Fox, all tore into what they described as the shambolic and chaotic state of the defence budget.
Defence cuts don't go deep enough
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The armies of the surrounding countries were shambolic and hopeless.
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Spectators are expected not to stand outside and observe but to enter and be surrounded by shambolic stage sets.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said: 'No other country puts its servicemen and women through this shambolic process.
The Sun
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We pass the school bus and reach the beginnings of Troy - a security gate with a man drinking coffee - and then I see the Horse: grey, singed metal, dwarfing our van, strangely shambolic.
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The story that emerges is one of shambolic record-keeping, muddle and complacency.
The Sun
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Sadly, it will be greeted with weary resignation by Swindonians, who have watched the authority lurch shambolically from one crisis to another in recent years.
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This was only four songs into the set and already this was the most shambolic gig I had ever been to!
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Our household is shambolic, which is why there was no milk.
Going out to buy milk beneath the pleiades
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Thursday said he could not guarantee that the 1999 elections would not be as "shambolic" as the 1994 elections, when days elapsed before the results were announced.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Touristy but attractive, the shambolic market lends an appealing air of bustle, while the Douro slips by silently towards the Atlantic.
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But with an ongoing nurses strike that shows no signs of ending, a shambolically run health service, rising inflation and gridlock in every major city, all is not lost for the increasingly beleaguered opposition leader, Enda Kenny.
The Irish General Election
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If anything, it is a terrible political gamble for Gordon Brown, whose Government is proceeding shambolically and is nowhere near achieving a consensus in the Commons.
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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Celestin's apparent pipping of Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly, a musician-turned politician, amid a low turnout, shambolic polling and widespread fraud prompted riots in several cities, with protestors saying Celestin would be a puppet of the unpopular Preval.
Haiti ruling party says candidate out of presidential run-off
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I went along to the results announcement this afternoon - a typically shambolically CCO organised event.
A New Era for the Tories
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A gentle aesthete and a shambolic dilettante, he was extraordinarily widely read, but shrewd and critical as well as omnivorous.
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It could be, perhaps, that the genre is still seen as monolithic and shambolic, Hildas in horn-hats and breastplates.
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The Tories seized on the revelation today as as proof of Labour's "shambolic" approach to party finances.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Pundits lost no time in savaging the weakness of the script, the poverty of the acting and shambolic directing.
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His sophomore effort is ambitious and diverse, suggesting Skinner's shambolic charm is here to stay.
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Yet these official figures represent only a small sample due to a shambolic identification system.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lambasted after throwing away a two-goal lead against Austria in their opening group six match on Saturday, England went into the match knowing another shambolic display could cost Sven-Goran Eriksson his job as head coach.
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A shambolic administrative system means around 3billion was not collected in that time.
The Sun
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The shambolic performance was captured at a secret gig in London last Friday.
The Sun
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Downing Street last night tried to gloss over Lord Butler's scathing, but tactfully phrased verdict on its shambolically informal style of government.
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An idiosyncratic mix of deliberately shambolic skits, sketches, stunts and spoofs, interrupted by fervent bickering, the show appeared intermittently from 1987 to huge public and critical acclaim.
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I scratched my head, feeling my hair stick up shambolically.
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it's a shambolic system
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His return was in a LA/New York fixture, which looked great after the brilliance of a 2007 meeting between the two teams, but has faltered somewhat now that the Red Bulls are terrible, losing shambolically 3-1.
Week at a Glance: Phase II of the Experiment
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It's a scandal such a shambolic system can exist when British troops are paying for it with their lives.
The Sun
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Eventually, it became apparent that being shambolic and rambling was their sole raison d' être.
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Crash The Party is a shambolic anthem that recalls the jerky, off-kilter energy of Hot Hot Heat in their prime, while there's a warm glow surrounding the slightly more stripped down melodies of the softly-spoken Let It Rain.
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The Financial Times called the event "shambolic" as if only a shaman could decode it.
Danny Schechter: Investigate This: Why Did the Market Tank?
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Living up to some shambolic ideal of its own invention, The Replacements influenced virtually every band emerging in the early '90s, both in its punk-informed songs and in its career arc.
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ANOTHER monster laughs at the law thanks to our shambolic justice system.
The Sun
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My window is over the desk, and provides plenty of light and an ample, nay unparalleled, view of the neighbour's shambolic back yard and the train tracks in the mid-distance.
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The zombies themselves are well-realised in the vein of George A Romero's classic monsters - as Pegg himself says, they're so shambolic and endearingly rubbish that you could spend an hour in a room just dodging one.
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The news came as events inside the courtroom yesterday teetered on the shambolic.
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As the lights went up, eyes focused in on a shambolic, drunken sprawling mess.
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In real life terms it required a hell of a lot of astuteness to keep the thing alive, even shambolically.
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It had good elements to it, but overall it did seem a bit low-rent and shambolic.
Gardenin' Gandalf, contemplatin' the growth of his Magic Basil....
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Labour accuses coalition of 'shambolic' counter-terrorism review
Coalition cuts being made on basis of 'hunches', says Tory-linked thinktank
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The ferocious and sometimes shambolic stand-up returns to vent his spleen.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is early days, but it is possible that this kind of inclusivity is exactly what our notoriously shambolic film industry needs.
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‘Football is a shambolically run business,’ he says, ‘run by greedy and vain people who seem to act only in self-interest.’
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Yesterday, shambolically but significantly, he forgot to mention it.
The Sun
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The most shambolic performance of all.
The Sun
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The ferocious and sometimes shambolic stand-up returns to vent his spleen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not least because shambolic MoD spending made cuts simpler to pinpoint.
The Sun
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It's Hubbard's contention that eight nations are running the world in a shambolic, criminally inequitable way.
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This country's benefit system is shambolic.
The Sun
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The "flics" look as menacing as ever, complete with body armour, truncheons and pistols, even though they are mostly dealing with shambolically intoxicated youths rather than would-be revolutionaries.
France's young binge drinkers upset cafe society with their 'British boozing'
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In this afternoon’s Queen Speech debate (quite how our esteemed representatives can spend two days debating seven minutes worth of platitudes is beyond me), the Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, described the Tories’ shambolic health policies as an ‘omnishambles’ - very ‘hip’ phraseology stolen from an Armando Ianucci penned Malcolm Tucker rant.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
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The Beach Boys are a good reference point: At their most endearing, the Band have the shambolic charm of early 70s Beach Boys records.
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As The Economist recently observed, For something so central to the modern world, the Internet is shambolically governed.
Joe Waz: Internet Governance at a Crossroads
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The correct word would probably be 'shambolic' although you would have trouble rhyming it with another word.
Archive 2006-06-01
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A senior Army officer said that the ammunition crisis was "shambolic" and came at the worst possible time for the Army.
Boing Boing: July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005 Archives
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The book's showbiz scenarios mock theatrical and film prototypes and stereotypes - the revolving cast and their scrimshank plaster-of-Paris mise-en-scene go round and round on the book's gigantic turntable, a shambolic revue, a whirlwind farce ...
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Had Diego Milito's goal in the first leg been correctly ruled out for being sixty-miles offside, or had Barça's totally valid goal not been shambolically dismissed, then Barcelona would have contested the final in Madrid.
How do you like your sour grapes, Señor Xavi Hernández? | Richard Williams
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The verdict last night finally brought to an end a case that had been handled shambolically by the sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet we have almost no idea of what happens when the same shambolic systems intervene in the wrong lives.
Times, Sunday Times
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Europe's leaders, so far, have responded shambolically.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was fine before he went on stage but, once he was there, he transformed into this shambolic drug-addled circus freak.
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They shambolically emerge as narcissists greedy for celebrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite his shambolic demeanour, he has been riding the Asian new wave pretty shrewdly.
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Despite his shambolic demeanour, Doyle has been riding the Asian new wave pretty shrewdly.
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A short amble onwards, the streets become shambolic, messy, invested with noise and life.
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Revenue Service (Sars) for the "shambolic" state of its financial accounts.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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When I first put on Hootenanny, for instance, last week, the first track I heard was the title track - pretty shambolic, with all the band swapping instruments and goofing off.
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We looked limp and pallid and shambolic by comparison.
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But she was booed off stage in Belgrade last month following a shambolic performance.
The Sun
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American hard rockers Amen have been quiet in the UK but have signed a major deal in the States and the shambolic Alfie are still dawdling along albeit somewhat aimlessly.
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Despite the self-deprecation, both outfits do a fair imitation of rock stars, and while Fake Mistake is certainly shambolic, it's also a rewarding listen - assured, smart, and inventive.
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The groundbreaking Sicilian work loses all sense of tragedy in Christ Church's shambolic production, which even manages to ruin Pirandello's subtle jibes at traditional theatre.
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A shambolic mess of a Government with absolutely no idea how to revive the economy led by a chinless moron.
The spotlight begins to shine on the coalition's flaws and faultlines | Andrew Rawnsley
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The result is admittedly shambolic at times but leaves the distinct feeling that, rather than listening to a jingle-laden radio show, you've popped round to a friend's house to listen to records that they like and think you might like.
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Not least because shambolic MoD spending made cuts simpler to pinpoint.
The Sun
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It was not just the result that shocked but mostly their shambolic performance.
The Sun