How to Use shambolic in a Sentence

shambolic

adjective

• As the film that Ryan shot makes clear, the results were shambolic.
  — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 16 June 2020
• All three played in the shambolic teenage noise-folk crew Moses Campbell, one of the better bands to emerge from the peak Smell era of the late-aughts.
  — August Brown, latimes.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• But as in Ukraine, the initial advance by the invaders was a shambolic mess.
  — John Fund, National Review, 6 Mar. 2022
• At one point, Norman meets his own double, in the shambolic person of Hank Azaria.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2017
• But chaos isn’t out of place in the shambolic business career of a real estate heir who weaves in and out of peril.
  — Max Abelson, Fortune, 3 July 2021
• The record's filthiest cut even put the F-word in its title, living up to the name with a shambolic rave-up that both blew the roof off and shook the earth below the new decade.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2021
• Wolff, too, tells a broad, jumpy, event-laden story about Trump’s shambolic final year.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2021
• But the way the cuts were handled was shambolic, suggesting a larger failure to plan for the future.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Mar. 2021
• Perhaps as a consequence, the season is more shambolic than the first.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• Central among her visions is a shambolic dwarf with flippers and a bent sense of humor known as the Thalidomide Kid.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
• Central among her visions is the Thalidomide Kid, a shambolic dwarf with flippers and a bent sense of humor.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• But Tigertail is also a lot of things The Farewell isn't: drowsy, shambolic, underthought.
  — Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2020
• As the shambolic withdrawal from Afghanistan has shown, we may be done with the wars on terrorism, but they are likely not done with us.
  — John Hillen, National Review, 10 Sep. 2021
• The networks were on the hot seat because their election-night coverage had contributed to the chaos of that shambolic evening.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
• Blair is a band of Brooklyn zoomers steeped in ’90s DIY indie and frayed emo who make melodic, shambolic rock songs that crest and fall apart in the most beautiful way.
  — Vogue, 7 Dec. 2021
• That is the shambolic wonder of the Olympic Games, reinforcing our good, while ensuring the bad is never out of sight.
  — Amy Bass, CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
• Its shambolic handling of the AstraZeneca vaccine has seen the country reverse course twice.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2021
• The fifth and final episode of season 4, part 1, flashed forward to Kate and Joe's first encounter after the shambolic country getaway.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
• This was once again made clear in the shambolic primary election that Georgia held on Tuesday.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 11 June 2020
• The leader of all this non-action is the middle-aged Agent Garrick, a shambolic, avuncular presence with a paunch and a nervous cough.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• Soon, our characters are off to Australia, on a shambolic road trip, hunting gods and gurus.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• Attorney Kim Foxx’s handling of the Jussie Smollett case was shambolic.
  — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2020
• The Ligue 1 side are looking to bounce back from an utterly shambolic season, and a move for Icardi would certainly help their cause.
  — SI.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• Its largely acoustic songs are sweet and all too brief, and affect a shambolic attitude that bolsters the earnestness at their hearts.
  — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 8 Sep. 2017
• Weak 5 is a Thursday night home game against the shambolic Giants, who could be starting rookie Daniel Jones at quarterback.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• The latter, of course, likely lost an election on the back of his shambolic pandemic performance.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
• The shambolic implementation of the GST is likely to make matters worse.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• Motsepe has been entrusted with lifting the sports body from its current shambolic state of affairs.
  — Daniel Ekonde, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2021
• But concerns remain that the overall shambolic state of U.S. public health data infrastructure could hobble the response to any future threats.
  — Sam Whitehead, CNN, 24 Apr. 2023
• During the tour, journalists and diplomats were taken through a large warehouse, with airport workers looking nonplussed as the group walked between shambolic piles of boxes and floor-to-ceiling shelving units.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024